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Author India Oxenberg escaped NXIVM with the help of her mother Catherine Oxenberg. They assisted the FBI to take down so-called guru Keith Raniere.

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Advertisement Judy Blume: We’re living in Key West. March 14 was our last day working at our bookstore, Books and Books Key West. [Blume and her husband, George Cooper, opened the store in 2016.] Our grown kids called that night to tell us they were concerned. We knew they were right. George and I have been extremely careful. We have been isolated since last March, except for some time over the summer when we got to spend time with my daughter and her teeny-weeny little bubble. But other than...

“It Was Like, ‘Wow!’”: Judy Blume’s Strange Tale of How She Got the COVID Vaccine in Florida Slate 1/19/2021 © Provided by Slate Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Aaron Davidson/Getty Images. The name Judy Blume is almost synonymous with milestones. We tend to think of the adolescent ones—first period, first kiss—but when I saw that Blume got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month, I knew there was no one I’d rather hear from about what it was like to...