Judy Blume wrote honestly about teen sex. At 50, ‘Forever' endures.
Alexis McGill Johnson doesn't know if she would have been allowed to read Judy Blume's 'Forever' in junior high school, but at the time, she wasn't taking any chances.
In the early 1980s, McGill Johnson discovered her older sister's copy of the book in the playroom of her childhood home in Morristown, New Jersey. To hide it, she nestled Blume's controversial novel — about first love and sex — inside another, more family-friendly, paperback.
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