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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Public
Books
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Love
Elizabeth
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