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By M&C News Aug 31, 2007, 12:25 GMT

Memoir on Johnny Cash by first wife

Vivian Cash has a book called I walked the Line, that tells her life with Johnny Cash. She was his first wife before they divorced and he married June Carter.

Janet Maslin from The New York Times has said, “I Walked the Line is a wildly romantic book, but also a sad and wrenching one, a testament to the destructive power of hopes pushed past the breaking point. Although Ms. Cash’s narrative sounds almost willfully naïve, that serves to make her book more revealing.”Publisher’s Weekly has described the book as, “Before there was June, there was Vivian, the 17-year-old girl from San Antonio, Tex., who met Cash in the summer of 1951 as he was headed overseas in the army. Three years of ardent letter writing sustained them—indeed, a good part of this book consists of Johnny's aching letters from 1951 to 1954, revealing his attempts to keep himself away from drinking and loose women, while begging her to wait for him and pray together.”For true Johnny Cash fans, no praise is needed. A photo of the young couple taken in 1954 can be seen in the NYT article here.

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