![]() ![]() “I sort of assumed that he never wrote the piece,” said Strayed. She looked for him, along with the issue of the Hobo Times in which she might have appeared, while writing Wild, but had no luck at the time. 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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