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I thought [Summer Sisters ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

Judy Blume

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