‘I fell in love again at 72.
Four months later I had
leukaemia, just like my sister Nora.
I pleaded with my new husband,
“Please let me die” ’
When a widowed Delia Ephron was diagnosed with an aggressive
form of leukaemia, her first thought was that she’d die, the same
way her sister Nora had. But a surprise relationship with a man
she’d dated 50 years earlier pulled her through. She tells Will Pavia
about a remarkable romance – with a happy ending