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- PEOPLE, Page 67Patti's Turn
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- NANCY REAGAN as a child abuser addicted to a smorgasbord
- of prescription drugs. Ronald Reagan as a father in emotional
- exile from his children. The author of such appalling portraits?
- Their long-estranged daughter PATTI DAVIS, in her new
- autobiography, The Way I See It. "If I had tried to tell this
- story before, it would just have been an angry book," she says
- of a work unlikely to be mistaken for a lovefest. Most scathing
- is the depiction of Nancy Reagan, famous for her antidrug "Just
- Say No" campaign, as a lifelong pill popper. Says Davis: "I saw
- it as an act of denial and a cry for help." The Reagans issued
- a statement insisting that "the charges of physical mistreatment
- and substance abuse . . . are absolutely false."
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