In a lifetime of amazing plot twists, Judy Blume is enjoying another at age 85.
which includes tributes from Molly Ringwald, Tayari Jones, Jason Reynolds and many others.
“I have no private life anymore,” she laments with a smile, reflecting on press events from Los Angeles to the independent movie theater just down the street. The Tropic Center, co-founded by Cooper, hosted an early screening of Craig's film during an event where Blume was presented with a key to the city.
“I remember things. I have a really good memory. And I wanted to be honest about sixth grade,” she says. “It was a year of obsession with bodily development. I wanted to be normal. I was a late developer, a tiny kid, and I just wanted to be like everybody else.” “He said, ‘I can’t have girls in our school reading about this.’ And I’m like, ‘Do you know how many girls in the fifth and sixth grade have already had their periods?’” Blume says. “Now, look what's going on in Florida. You have girls being told not to talk about menstruation. What are you going to do? Of course they’re going to talk about it.”
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