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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

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