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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

Judy Blume

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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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