i grew up reading judy blume's books.s for young adults and have spunk and heart and real life stuff. no sugarcoating for judy blume and that is precisely how the author, of "are you there, god? its a margaret." that news is she's battling breast cancer. she doesn't want you to blubber either, blubber, one of the titles of her books. i want to bring in elizabeth cohen and talk about how we absolutely adored her books. my goodness. with her perfect dose of humor, she blogs about this. it wasn't a mammogram, an ultrasound that caught her breast cancer. >> you hear get your mammogram. sometimes it's an ultra sound that picks it up. she has dense breasts and her doctor recommended an ultra sound. that's not uncommon for a doctor to say get an ultrasound and mammogram if you have dense breasts. >> i sent this to my aunt who had a lump ectomy a week ago today. this is part of what judy blume wrote, me? no breast cancer in my family. recent extensive genetic testing shows no genetic connection. i haven't eaten red meat in more t

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