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Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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