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Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69

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She was a very talented actress as well as a champion for those with mental disorders like she was!

I watched "The Patty Duke Show" on cable TV as a teenager and I'm watching it now on over-the-air TV, as well as her many other TV and movie appearances.

I both mourn her passing and celebrate her life today!

Rest in peace, Anna Marie "Patty" Duke Pearce!

Though you are now gone, your TV characters Patty and Cathy Lane will live on our TV screens and the TVs in our hearts forever.

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The AP obituary described her early career in darker tones. In her autobiography, she relates how her husband-wife management team when she was a child apparently could have taught Japanese Idol managers a thing or two about draconian control over a child's life. The first thing they did was strip her of her first name, telling her, "Anna Marie is dead. You are now Patty." She goes on to write how they forced her to live with them and sexually abused her. She also wrote that she loathed the drivel she had to say in The Patty Duke Show and the part she accepted of a drug addict in "Valley of the Dolls" was her retaliation against the bubblegum parts they wanted her to play.

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RIP.

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