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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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On 7/11/2015 6:46 PM, wrote:

>> pleased with all that

>
> My best one was a Harry Chapin concert. Believe it or not, there were
> maybe only 12 of us there - he came down off stage and sat amongst us
> and sang. Not long after that he died in a road accident. He was
> giving two performances that day on a university campus and I just
> happened to pick the right one. Many would have scrubbed it but not
> Harry, he said we were there, we had paid and he would sing.


He was a good guy. Maybe a year before that we went to one of his
concerts. After, he was raising funds for World Hunger by selling his
poetry books and t-shirts. We waited for the crown to leave before we
got anything. While waiting, we chatted with a woman also waiting. She
later introduced us to her husband, Harry.