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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
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Judith Sussman
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you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
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