Nora Ephron was a talented writer and humourist, and occasional director who made warm-hearted movies such as "When Harry Met Sally", and "You've Got Mail", making even grown men admit to have a thing for fluffy and predictable romances. She passed away in June of 2012.
In 2005, she had written an article called "___ ___ and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either", in which she wrote of her indiscreet revelations about someone connected to a major US political event. But no one really took her seriously. The article showed ho wshe was one of the few people in the world to know something.
What did she know?
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The identify of the secret source "Deep Throat", who had leaked information about the infamous Watergate scandal that would eventually cost Richard Nixon the Presidency. Ephron was married to one of the two reporters behind the story, Carl Bernstein. Though Bernstein had never revealed the true identity of the source, Ephron claimed to have figured it out herself.
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