![]() ![]() We met in the early seventies and bonded over tuna fish sandwiches at Schrafft’s on our way to a meeting of children’s book writers. We were born in the same year, our favorite childhood books were the “Betsy-Tacy” series, and each of us, as Norma put it, “rushed into reading adult novels at eleven or twelve, to find an alternative to the idealized, sanitized, sentimentalized books meant for readers our ages.” For a short time, we even shared the same literary agent. ![]() When I moved with my family to New Mexico she was flabbergasted. I was a New Jersey girl who’d always dreamed of living across the river and she was a city girl who had trouble imagining living anywhere else. Her world, and the world she wrote about, was often the world of the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she lived with her husband and two daughters. ![]() She was a consummate New Yorker, born, bred, and educated in the city. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher. ![]() Introduction Copyright © 2014 by Judy Blume ![]()
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