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| Nora Ephron, journalist, novelist and screenwriter |
Much Ado About Nothing |
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There was a lot of talk back and forth about whether we should do it, and I remember we were riding somewhere in his car and I told him we should. But he said he wasn't sure. The first person you went to bed with — which was when I was nineteen and a junior at Wellesley — was usually someone you were engaged to and that you practically had to talk into going to bed with you, because he really didn't know if he wanted to do that with someone he loved so deeply.
We finally did it in his dormitory room at Harvard, on his bed. It was over very quickly, and I don't remember much physical sensation one way or the other. It didn't hurt and it wasn't terribly pleasant. Just a kind of nothing feeling. I remember thinking, "My God, is this it? Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" It was very disappointing. And then, to make matters even more ridiculous, he accused me of not being a virgin at all. I didn't have a hymen — I don't know anyone who had a remotely athletic adolescence who did — and he assumed that because I didn't, I must be an old pro. It hardly seemed fair to have finally done it and then not even get the credit for its being my first time. (Cambridge, Mass., 1960)
from The First Time, edited by Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor Fleming (Simon and Schuster, 1975)
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