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David McGrath

THE TRUTH ABOUT: A lesson for lonely hearts on valentine s day | History Defined

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David and Marianne McGrath at their wedding in 1972. | Provided photo

The late musician and storyteller Harry Chapin composed one of the best Valentine’s Day songs ever written, “A Better Place to Be,” about a man who could not believe his good fortune when a woman way out of his league chose to be with him

“You see, she was so damned beautiful she could warm a winter’s frost,” Chapin wrote.

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