![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() in the fall issue of the Hobo Times.” In the book, Strayed called the man Jimmy Carter in reality, she told me, he said his name was Jerry Brown-she maintained the spirit of the original California politician by swapping it with that of a nationally known one. In both the film and the book, the reporter wrote down Strayed’s first and last name, snapped a photo of her, gave her a hobo care package containing beer, an individually packaged cigarette, canned beans, and various other items, and told her to “look for his piece. I had to know if this colorful character was even aware that he'd made it to the page and screen, and I wanted to re-unite him with the woman he met on that California highway 20 years ago. Many of the toughest parts of Strayed’s book are part of Wild on-screen, but I was tickled to see that the unexpected, sweet exchange with the Hobo Times reporter made the cut in the film as well. Having lost my father to cancer when I was 23, the story of Strayed’s hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the wake of her own mother’s death, moved me. I first came to Strayed’s story in her memoir Wild, published in 2012. ![]()
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