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Songwriter Jimmy Webb doesn’t tell the whole truth in “The Cake and the Rain,” the memoir of his life from 1955 to 1970, during which he wrote “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “MacArthur Park” and many other hits.

The Oklahoma native completely left out his first wife, Patsy Sullivan Webb, mother of his six children, who has been deluged with calls, e-mails and posts on social media from outraged friends.

Patsy, the daughter of actor Barry Sullivan, was a model who met Jimmy on a 1968 cover shoot for Teen Magazine. “Which is funny because neither one of us were teens. I was 12 and he was 22,” she told me.

When the couple began their affair a year later, “my mother had Roy Cohn calling me every day to press charges against Jimmy for statutory rape.”

Their son Christiaan was 17 months old when the couple married in 1974; Patsy was 16 when she gave birth.

Christiaan also isn’t mentioned in the book, which chronicles Webb’s drug use and promiscuity in the years he was writing songs for Glen Campbell, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt.

The couple was married for 22 years and together for 27 years.

“He could have glossed over my age if he didn’t want people to know,” Patsy said. “It’s shocking. If you are going to be honest in a memoir, how do you leave out your wife and kids?”

Reps for Webb didn’t get back to me.