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If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

Judy Blume

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