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On the set of
Saving Private Ryan
with my dad and stepmom. My dad didn’t come to a lot of my movie sets but he flew to Wexford, Ireland for this one. Maeve and I were patching things up again and she spent a lot of time on the set as well. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

TOM SIZEMORE
rose in prominence throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy character. Born in Detroit, he got his start in
Born on the Fourth of July
, and has since starred in
Devil in a Blue Dress, Strange Days, Wyatt Earp
,
Natural Born Killers
,
Heat
,
Saving Private Ryan,
and
Black Hawk Down
, among many others. Sizemore recently costarred in Fox’s television pilot
Exit Strategy
and had a recurring guest-star role on
Hawaii Five-O
. Sizemore has counseled both teens involved in substance abuse and recovering addicts, and is actively involved with the Hollenbeck Youth Center in East Los Angeles.

ANNA DAVID
is the author of the novels
Party Girl
and
Bought
, the anthology
Reality Matters,
and the memoir
Falling for Me.
She is the executive editor of the addiction and recovery website The Fix, is doing graduate work in drug and alcohol counseling at UCLA, and speaks at colleges across the country on addiction.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sizemore, Tom, 1961–
  By some miracle I made it out of there : a memoir / by Tom Sizemore with Anna David. — First Atria Books hardcover edition.
          pages cm
  1. Sizemore, Tom, 1961– 2. Actors—United States—Biography. 3. Methamphetamine abuse—California—Biography. 4. Drug addicts—Rehabilitation—California—Biography. I. David, Anna, 1970– II. Title.
   PN2287.S393A3 2013
   791.4302’8092—dc23
   [B]

2012048280

ISBN 978-1-4516-8167-3
ISBN 978-1-4516-8169-7 (ebook)

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