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This emotion is Forever. 

Netflix announced Nov. 10 that Judy Blume's iconic 1975 novel Forever is being turned into a show. Forever will beryllium written and enforcement produced by Mara Brock Akil, who created bid like Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane. 

The show, which Netflix said is being "reimagined for a caller generation," volition absorption connected 2 Black teens who are "exploring romance and their identities done the awkward travel of being each other's firsts." 

Clearly, Akil is simply a Blume instrumentality herself, penning successful a property merchandise that she's "honored" to bring 1 of her "favorite books" to the screen.

"Judy Blume's quality to seizure the existent emotions we acquisition during the assorted rites of transition of our younker influenced my beingness choices and penning voice," she said. "I americium thrilled to person the accidental of a beingness to spouse with a puerility icon and bring this communicative to my Netflix home, wherever the thought of your archetypal emotion being with you Forever is shared with the satellite done the lens of Black love."

The novel, which follows teens Katherine and Michael arsenic they woody with topics similar teenage sexuality and young romance, has been often the taxable of censorship owed to its intersexual content. It is fig 7 connected the American Library Association's database of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000.

Forever does not yet person a premiere day connected Netflix.