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«It snowed on Christmas night. We walked to Times Square to see the white billboard proclaiming WAR IS OVER! If you want it. Happy Christmas from John and Yoko. It hung above the bookstall where Robert bought most of his men’s magazines, between Child’s and Benedict’s, two all-night Diners. Looking up, we were struck by the ingenuous humanity of this New York City tableau. Robert took my hand and as the snow swirled around us I glanced at his face. He narrowed his eyes and nodded in affirmation, impressed to see artists take on Forty-Second Street. For me it was the message. For Robert, the medium … The sixties were coming to an end. Robert and I celebrated our birthdays. Robert turned twenty-three. Then I turned twenty-three. The perfect prime number. Robert made me a tie rack with the image of the Virgin Mary. I gave him seven silver skulls on a length of leather. He wrore the skulls. I wore the tie. We felt ready for the seventies.»
Fra Just Kids av Patti Smith.
















