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Walk to beautiful, the power of love and a homeless kid who found the way, Jimmy Wayne with Ken Abraham

eng

autobiography

illustrations

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non fiction

Walk to beautiful

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Jimmy Wayne with Ken Abraham

the power of love and a homeless kid who found the way

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. He now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere

Prologue: FTW: twenty-seven years earlier -- A wake-up call. Big time! ; Back home -- The crazy years. Life with Carroll ; Vance street vice, mayhem, and murder ; Matinee madness ; Hangover street ; Ghost tales ; I think I know how Jesus felt ; Foster kid ; Hungry ; Baptized ; Grandpa's place ; A light in the darkness ; Money for mama ; Sparkles ; The nightmare begins ; Sante shoot-out ; On the run ; Facing the bullies ; Faith farm ; Doctor death ; Didn't she always come back? ; My worst birthday ever ; Bumping into angels ; Family affairs -- Saved by love. The most beautiful woman in the world ; My first band ; It's not where you've been, it's where you're goin' ; Working inside ; Country bust ; Nashville novice ; Good-bye Jimmy, good-bye Bea ; Some dreams really do come true ; You never know ; Who me? a country star? ; House of cards ; Exposure ; Second change -- The walk. Walking away or walking toward? ; Walk on! ; New friends, snakes, and a dog ; Pie town ; Not complainin', just explainin' ; First steps to a new journey -- Epilogue: be somebody