Author Description

Author Kenneth W Kerr, who was briefly switched at birth, tells how his adventurous childhood in South Carolina evolved into a life changing and life threatening nationwide experience as a teen in the turbulent seventies in America. Kenneth was born into a loving family, enjoyed summer camps and boarding schools. But, when he struggled as a teen, he chose to leave home and wander across the nation in a lifelong adventure of self-discovery. He left everything behind. Ordinary Americans helped him live, work, and sometimes survive to discover genuine happiness. In suspenseful true stories, he vividly relates how he experienced funny, heart-wrenching, sometimes harrowing events like being switched at birth in 1959, trying to stop a soldier headed to the Vietnam war, stowing away on a flight to make-out with a girl, escapades in boarding school, hitchhiking with a kitten, nearly being driven off a cliff in a tractor trailer, his father's brush with death, sharing his mother's love of stock car racing, and dozens of other stories. He describes emotional short stories from his early childhood and adolescence as he explored life, faced death, fell in love and was heartbroken. He struggled and overcame hunger, poverty, and homelessness that came with being a self-dependent teenager...