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But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Harry Chapin

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Harry Chapin
Age: 38 †
Born: 1942
Born: December 7
Died: 1981
Died: July 16
Banjoist
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Harold Forster Chapin
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