![]() ![]() “I’m not trying to get pity,” a typical 11-year-old wrote. Ruth rolled into one.” In the 1980s, she received 2,000 letters every month from devoted readers. The New York Daily News once referred to her as “Miss Lonelyhearts, Mister Rogers and Dr. ![]() ![]() Blume’s 29 books have sold more than 90 million copies. ![]() Who better to go through a bedbug scare with?įor more than 50 years, Blume has been a beloved and trusted guide to children who are baffled or terrified or elated by what is happening to them, and are trying to make sense of it, whether it has to do with friendship, love, sex, envy, sibling rivalry, breast size (too small, too large), religion, race, class, death, or dermatology. Maybe, on some level, I’d been seeking such reassurance when I emailed her in the first place. Here was Judy Blume, the author who gave us some of American literature’s most memorable first periods, wet dreams, and desperate preteen bargains with God, calmly and empathetically letting me know that an unwelcome bodily development was nothing to be ashamed of or frightened by-that it was, in fact, something that had happened to her body too. Amy-When I am bitten by No-See-Ums (so small you can’t even see them and you were eating on your balcony in the evening)-I get a reaction, very itchy and the bites get very red and big. ![]()
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