Here is the late Nancy LaMott singing "I'll Be Here With You" on Good Morning America on Valentine's Day in 1995.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb40nYUshTE It was her last Valentine's Day. Shortly after, she was operated on for uterine cancer. Ten months later, she was dead.
But during those ten months, while she was undergoing chemotherapy, she released an album, she played multiple engagements around the United States, including a sold-out week at New York's Tavern on the Green, she performed at the White House and on radio broadcasts and on television on Good Morning America, the Charles Grodin Show, and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.
And during that last, awful year, at age 44, she finally met the love of her life. An hour before she died, a priest married them in her hospital room.
Love, they say, comes in mysterious ways, at the most inconvenient times, and takes forms you never expected. When it comes, it is up to us to be of good cheer and not succumb to self-pity. And to remain so, after it comes, which is just as hard.
"I know times have been hard.
Life's treated you bad.
But, baby, let down your guard.
Try not to be sad..."
Happy Valentine's Day.
Updated On: 2/14/11 at 05:18 PM
