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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Inside
Books
Write
Best
Book
Come
Writing
Someplace

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