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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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