LOST AND FOUND

Kenneth W Kerr’s life became a story to tell after he was briefly switched at birth. The eventful childhood that followed evolved into a nationwide adventure as a teen. 


Kerr grew up in a loving family in rural South Carolina, enjoyed small town life as a Southern boy, attending summer camps and prep schools. As a teen, he opposed his parents over a long distance romance, left home, and travelled from coast to coast over the next several years. He was determined to learn about life from friends who might otherwise be strangers. As he began to understand others in this way, he began to understand himself. Across America, people from all walks in life taught him how to live, work, and survive as a young adult. During his exploration of life, he encountered hunger, poverty, and homelessness. Each lesson in life enabled him to overcome the next challenge he faced. 


Through a collection of short stories, Kerr relates what it was like to experience funny, dramatic, and harrowing events. Examples include being switched at birth, trying as a child to stop a soldier from going to the Vietnam war, stowing away on a flight to make-out with a girl, escapades in boarding school, running away from home, hitchhiking with a kitten, being hungry on the street, 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 more. 


Read this book to discover how an ordinary child completed an extraordinary journey and walked among strangers for several years to understand himself and find genuine happiness.