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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

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