Valentine's Day is on the horizon and NPR's All Songs Considered has you covered with a mix of lesser-known love songs for that special someone in your life.

You don't make your wife playlist?

Well, not anymore. I sealed the deal.

Robin. Robin. Robin. Robin. Mr. Robin. Mr. Robin.

We're going to discuss this later.

Hear new episodes of all songs

considered every Tuesday,

wherever you get podcasts.

Lost Patience is about serious mental illness.

This episode mentions suicide and drug use,

so it might be disturbing for some listeners.

On a wet winter day in 1854, pioneers on the shore of what was not yet Washington State found a man shivering in a ragged tent.

The tent dweller was Edward Moore, a 32-year-old sailor from Worcester County, Massachusetts, who had stayed behind in Seattle or was left behind by a ship's captain.

Josephine Ensign, a University of Washington nursing professor, has researched the history of homelessness

in the Seattle area.

This is from her book, Skid Road.

He'd been living in his makeshift tent for months.

Living off for all shellfish, he foraged and being cared for after a fashion by the coast-sailish people who live nearby.

This sailor, Edward Moore, had landed in a Seattle that was barely two years old,

a misty settlement of log cabins and wood-framed houses at the edge of

the known world. He had frostbite, so the town's only doctor amputated many of his toes

with an axe.

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