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So, it's a long time since I read this (definitely due a reread!), but it still is stuck in my brain. This is mainly due to the fact, that anything Patti Smith writes is sublime (check out her Instagram page). Plus it's a great Rock 'n Roll story, which also happens to crosse paths with Andy Warhol and The Factory, and the notoriously famous Chelsea Hotel, where Patti lived for a while in the early 70's. Plus it's a love story.
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This is a memoir of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe as they explored and came into their own in their art and of their relationship. Robert was one of the first people that Patti met when she moved to NYC from NJ to make it as an artist and they quickly formed a bond that lasted throughout their lives as friends, lovers, muses and support systems. They lived a bohemian life scrounging for money and balancing time for art with time for work and eventually ended up in the epicenter of art at t
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