How Loretta Lynn learned to stand up to ‘dirty old men’ — and her husband — thanks to Patsy Cline
who died at 90 Tuesday — had a special bond with another female country legend: Patsy Cline.The two singers — who were born just five months apart in 1932 — forged a close friendship that was cut short by Cline’s untimely death in a 1963 plane crash. But in a short span of time, Lynn was profoundly inspired by the “Crazy” songbird both personally and professionally, even naming one of her twin daughters Patsy the year after Cline died.It all started after Lynn dedicated a radio performance of Cline’s song “I Fall to Pieces” to the stricken star when she was recovering from a near-fatal car accident in 1961.