While reading Just Kids, I was particularly enthralled by Patti and Robert’s friendship. I think, more than anything else, I admire it. Even though they weren’t lovers in the traditional sense, I think that most people spend their lives trying to find a connection with another person like the one Patti and Robert share. The best part of the book, to me, was how raw their friendship was and simply how the two relied on each other so much that they seemed to be two halves of one whole. Without each other, they would not have blossomed into the artists or the people that they had ended up to be. I think that the mutual dependence that they had on each other, paired with their fierce loyalty to each other against all odds, is a pretty beautiful thing.
The Arts, The City, and Me: Encounters with New York
Professor Drabik – Fall 2014
Hi Jillian,
I agree that Patti and Robert’s friendship was a special thing and really rounded out the memoir in a positive way. Love manifests itself in strange ways, but Patti and Robert’s love was easy to see whether it was in their ‘dating phase’ or in their later friendship. It was certainly the strength of their relationship that grew as it evolved that made this memoir a page-turner.