Not as simple as it sounds. You still need to prove to paypal that you are the person who held the account. As bluemoon said, you will need to supply them with info that only the account owner would know. You will need password, secret question, email address, residental address of account. Be prepared for them to be suspicious .... you might be lucky. 
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