Patti Smith's New York Love Affair: An Excerpt From Her Memoir "Just Kids"

[Raoul Duke]

Smith looks back on her years of lean living - and artistic revolution - with the photographer Robert MapplethorpeOn July 3rd, 1967, Patti Smith — then 20 years old, a teachers-college dropout from New Jersey with shotgun passions for rock & roll and the French poet Arthur Rimbaud — boarded a bus in Philadelphia and, a couple of hours later, got off in New York to start life anew. "No one expected me," she says in a new memoir, "Just Kids." "Everything awaited me." That included Robert Mapplethorpe, also 20, a former altar boy and an aspiring artist from Long Island. Smith met him that first day...

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