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Parallel lives: a memoir that created memories

 โ€œThe unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels.โ€
โ€” Patti Smith

This is going to be fun. I enjoyed reading American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer Patti Smithโ€™s new memoir โ€œBread of Angels: A Memoirโ€ (Random House, 2025, 267 pages). Smith, who has fused rock music and poetry in her 12 recordings over the years and who is the author of 11 books, now at age 78, is still rockinโ€™ and rollinโ€™ and scribbling some mighty fine biographical prose.  

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