Well, while working at the bookstore Patti meets Robert Mapplethrope, a young aspiring artist with very curly hair and slightly bowlegged legs. He comes into the store and ends up purchasing a medallion a necklace that Pattie really liked. When he buys it she states " Don't give that to any other girl but me." and immediately resents saying such a odd thing. Robert doesn't seem to mind though. Well they don't see each other for a while and she ends up going on a date with this old creepy poet man when she meets him again. The old creepy poet man asks Patti if she wants to go up to his room and she happens to see Robert in the knick of time. She pleads him to her her boyfriend and he accepts right away. I guess they just hit it off after that because he asks her if she needs a place to stay and they bunk at a friends house for awhile until they can find an apartment of their own. Roberts into LSD because he claims it helps him paint, I think its interesting that Robert uses Drugs but Patti barely does throughout the book (well at least not as hard core). So after awhile things with Robert start to get shady, he starts to question his sexuality and later ends up going to San Fransisco to have a self learning experience. When he returns he still seems to be a little off. He starts to put sexual references and drawling within his art, maybe to shock people or maybe just to experiment, I don't know. Later on after moving to another shady apartment, Robert becomes very sick and Patti ends up moving him out to find a doctor and to live in the Chelsea Hotel.
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