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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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