It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

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