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- Thirteen years ago today, on Jan. 1, 2010, singer-songwriter Jimmy Wayne kicked off the new year by starting a 1,700-mile walk, called Meet Me Halfway, to raise awareness about youth aging out of the foster care system.
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Oct 19, 2016 · Starved, abused and abandoned, country singer Jimmy Wayne had a heartbreaking childhood — the stuff of make-you-cry music lyrics. Home was a violent drug den, a stepfather pulled a gun on him...
- Ginny Graves
Jimmy Wayne, a 37-year-old rising country music star, didn’t always have a spotlight shining over him. His dark childhood was marked with abuse, abandonment, and instability. With his mother in and out of prison, he bounced around a series of foster homes, ultimately becoming homeless as a teenager. His life began to turn around when a North ...
Apr 4, 2016 · Jimmy Wayne then spent the next three years being homeless until at sixteen Bea and Russell Costner took this young man in and turned around his world.
Dec 14, 2015 · Country star Jimmy Wayne recalls mowing the grass for an elderly woman when he was a teenager. For his efforts, she would reward the homeless child with a Coca-Cola.
Oct 4, 2014 · It was part of the seven-month, 1,700-mile walk he made from Nashville to Phoenix to raise awareness of at-risk and homeless youths. He remembers Hot Springs as the town where someone stole his...
- Cindy Watts
Oct 7, 2014 · Jimmy Wayne's new book 'Walk to Beautiful' chronicles his painful childhood and time in foster care, and his 1,700 mile walk to raise foster care awareness.
Oct 28, 2016 · Singer/songwriter Jimmy Wayne is on a mission to raise awareness for the thousands of at-risk kids who age out of the U.S. foster care system each year.
