Dear Diary: To be just kids

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Dear Diary: To be just kids

Dear Diary combines the intimacy of a diary-like narrative with the writer’s own experiences, little and big, as well as politics and culture. In a letter to Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe writes that when he draws, he sings naked with God.  Naked. Bare, stripped down to the bone.  Patti recalls her bouts of weeping in the tiny New York apartment she shared with Robert, which was covered in art and Bob Dylan and John Lennon. A torrential rainf…