these quotes. I think he did confirm the abuse:
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Dick confesses that he occasionally smacked Cline and that he once spent a night in jail for beating her up. Says Charlie: "Strangers would've thought we were gonna knock each other out, but we were just livin'. We made up as hard as we fought. We had a lot of fun making up."
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Dick was simultaneously proud and jealous of his wife, an ambivalence that often erupted in bouts of drinking, followed by violence. "Patsy could really hold her own. She was strong and that was sometimes rough on a tough guy like Charlie,"
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