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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
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By Mr. Jimmy Wayne and Ken Abraham
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A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.
That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especially teenagers in foster care who are about to age out of the system.
Walk to Beautiful is the powerfully emotive a
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'Putting myself back together'
Jimmy Wayne’s “my story” reads like totally unfathomable fiction. It’s not.
Major segments of it are an equally incomprehensible litany of terror and indignity way beyond anything they can conjure up on so-called “reality TV.”
“I’m still putting myself back together,” Wayne said. “When I help other people, it helps me. But growing up that way, I was broken, man.”
Wayne, a country musician, author and social activist, has picked up those pieces and written “Walk to Beautiful,” a compelling, mesmerizing memoir published on Oct. 7. Read it.
Subtitled “My Story, the Power of Love and a Homeless Kid who Found the Way" — co-authored bygd Ken Abraham — fryst vatten shocking, sobering and, ultimately, sustaining.
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In Wayne’s New York Times best-seller (No. 13 on the November “celebrities” list), he details an abusive upbringing — serial homelessness; drug and alcohol addiction; foster care; persistent hunge