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Pat Benatar is All Fired Up to Be Invincible
Can a bank teller become a rockstar? Can ideals survive realities of misogyny? Is love a battlefield and is hell for children? Pat Benatar’s life and music says yes. Shine Pat Benatar was raised in a home where female empowerment and equality was the norm. She was taught that women were equal and could accomplish…
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I have loved that song for decades and never knew this inspiring backstory--thank you for this!
It was new information for me not too long ago. It all started seeing a young gay man dancing to…