ClarePitcher

I have finally come to the end of this book. Patti has moved into a new house with her husband Frank in New Jersey and she is now carrying her second child. One day she gets a phone call from Robert and he tells her that Sam has contracted AIDS and is in very poor condition. She packs up her son Jackson and her husband and head down to New York and visits Sam. It is then that Robert shows up at Sams, looking awful, and tells Patti that he has also gotten AIDS. Patti and her crew head back home and she has a beautiful baby girl, Jesse. A few short days later, she receives the news of Sams death. She heads back down to New York and attends Sams funeral with Robert. They feel as they did years before when they were living together in the crummy Hotel Chelsea. Robert holds Patti while she uncontrollably cries, realizing that the end is near for Robert and there is nothing she can do about it. She soon heads back the Jersey, needing to care for her two kids and her band. A few days later, she gets a much expected call, the news of Robert's passing. She takes her kids and Frank down to New York for the memorial service, held in the art gallery they used to go to when they first met. She wrote him a song and sang it at his service, later recording it to go along with her second album. Robert made Patti promise to write about them, the tale of two kids falling in love in the Big City and how art got them through the hard times. She took a couple of years to write the story but she perfected it. Just Kids is now one of my favorite books, along with Patti Smith being one of my favorite musical artists.