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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

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
Talk
Read
Book
Even
Love
Necessarily

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