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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Fear
Often
Disguised
Outrage
Moral

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