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Your my Coney Island baby !!! That brought me suck joy you hear you sing that line !!! And thank you for reading from Just Kids !!!

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Oh love this photo, this book, everything 🙏

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lovely picture

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❤️❤️

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Beautiful memories. Just kids is one of my favourite books, it’s so vividly written and captures each moment with such love. To hear you read it is to be treasured (l love all the extra information) we are lucky to meet special people in our lives and l truly believe this is a wonderful magical love story to be kept in our hearts forever 🖤

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What a life, what a relationship, what a storyteller you are. ❤️❤️

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Profoundly moving and poignant. Great love story between Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.

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How lovely to be transported for a while on this cold wet grey Sunday afternoon to the colours and the seaside wonders of Coney Island ! Thank you for sharing a part of that special magical day Patti . 🎡

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I have read "Just Kids" several times, but hearing you read brings it to another level, thank you

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I have read "Just Kids" several times, but hearing you read brings it to another level, thank you

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I just love the story of you and Robert, Just Kids. I, too, have fond memories of Coney Island but as a young kid. You fill my heart with joy. Thank you, Patti. 💜

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So happy to be together ❤

Thank you Patti ❤️

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I adore this book and have both read and listened to it. This was a third mode. As a lover of words, I listened and then tried to think of words to use to describe your additional commentary. I saw some great ones by others here. Commentary, interjecting, doo wop. And then these words came to me. “An excerpt from Just Kids: Read by the author with sparkling asides and warmth.”

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thank you for bringing us back to 'just kids'...the text, the photo, the reading, in such lovely harmony

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have always loved this particular photo. sweet and saucy!

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