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I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

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Patti Smith
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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