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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

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Pat Benatar
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 10
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Patricia Mae Giraldo
Patricia Mae Andrzejewski
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