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As a child I was such an intense daydreamer I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.

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