title: Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
author:  Natalie Cole 
description: Over the past four decades, Natalie Cole has performed the world over, won multiple Grammys, and sold tens of millions of records in the genres of R&amp;B, pop, and jazz. She is perhaps best known for her 1991 album, <i>Unforgettable . . . with Love,</i> featuring her vocal arrangements of her father's greatest hits with piano accompaniment by her uncle Ike Cole, which won several Grammy awards, including Album of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.<br /><br />As an actress, she starred in director Delbert Manns Lily in Winter and co-starred with Laurence Fishburn and Cicely Tyson in Walter Mosleys Always Outnumbered. She played herself in Livin For Love: The Natalie Cole Story, the biopic of her life, which aired on NBC. Natalie has made more than 300 major television appearances, from dramas like Law and Order and Touched by an Angel to talk shows with Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Larry King. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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  To the readers who loved the men of Runaway Train enough to keep the series
  going.
  
  
  And to Kim Bias & Paige Silva—my two wranglers who keep me sane, make me
  laugh, & keep me focused.
  
  
  * D P G R O U P . O R G *
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  BRAYDEN
  
  
  THE PRESENT
  
  
  
  
  
  The wind whipped through my hair and rippled through my clothes as I drove
  over the Bull River Bridge that connected Tybee Island to Savannah. I couldn’t
  help feeling seventeen again. With a Beatles CD blaring, I sang along at the
  top of my lungs like I didn’t have a care in the world. Of course, a day at
  the beach always made me young again. It reminded me of summer vacations with
  my parents and grandparents. A smile tugged at my lips when I pondered how in
  the world we were able to get my two younger sisters, my parents, my
  grandpar