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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

Judy Blume

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