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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

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
Write
Children
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People
Deeply
Connected
Childhood

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