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I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children.But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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