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Margaret was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

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