"So the same year I paid off my college education was the year I secured my children's college education," Strayed added with an unabashed, satisfied smile. She also opened a college fund for her kids. "I wanted to give myself a birthday present," she said. Then on her 44th birthday, Strayed paid off her student loans, which she had carried (and kept current) for more than 20 years. "Because it felt like, ?OK, I earned this.' " "The piano was delivered, and the guys left and I put my hands on it, and I just started crying," Strayed recalled during a recent visit from her home in Portland to Seattle to promote the film version of "Wild," starring Reese Witherspoon. It was something she never had in her powdered-milk and government-cheese childhood, but always dreamed of. The first thing author Cheryl Strayed bought was a $2,000 piano for her two children. And, as of last week, to movie theaters nationwide. The big checks started coming in about nine months after "Wild" hit bookshelves and started its climb to the top of The New York Times best-seller's list.
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