Love the Second Time Around

Young Love Comes Full Circle for Greg and Hilary

By Leslie Dinaberg | February 16, 2023

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Their lovely wedding took place on the rooftop terrace of the Canary Hotel, but their love story started at a junior golf tournament when they were in high school. Greg Moss said he spotted the slender blonde Hilary Rack Chapman walking down the hallway of their shared hotel floor, with Hilary’s mother, who was chaperoning four girls from Santa Barbara. “I was there with two knuckleheads and a case of beer. And when they walked down the hallway in the hotel, these four lovely little ducklings, came to the room right next door to us, all cute as can be.”

They met, exchanged numbers, and although Rack Chapman lived in Santa Barbara and Moss lived an hour south and didn’t have a car, they began seeing each other when they could. “I always thought she was special,” said Moss. “It broke my heart when she picked SMU over USC [his college].” They wrote letters for a while but eventually lost touch and went on to marry other people and spend the next three decades on opposite coasts.

More than 30 years later, “a buddy saw her at the Whole Foods in Fairfax, Virginia and said ‘Moss, you should reach out to her.’”