Surfer to Savior: Jamie Tworkowski, Founder of To Write Love on Her Arms
I must be in the wrong demo because I’d never heard of TWLOHA, but it’s actually massive and seemingly totally righteous. Allison Glock profiles founder Jamie Tworkowski for Rolling Stone:
It’s just past noon in Atlanta, where the Warped Tour is in full swing, but already Jamie Tworkowski has hugged 79 people, posed for 56 photographs, signed 42 autographs, blotted the tears of 13 young girls (and two teenage boys), and heard the words “you saved my life” at least a dozen times. He has seen phrases he wrote tattooed on torsos and legs, held a woman’s hand while she wept for her dead son, and shared his cherry sno-cone with a stranger who proclaims he wants to be just like Tworkowski — “just so fucking righteous, man!”
Tworkowski, a 29-year-old surfer dude and college dropout, has become a new kind of guru to a generation of troubled teenagers, the father of…
