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Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Fight
Fighting
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Book
Every
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