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      this is a genuine rare bird book

      Rare Bird

      453 South Spring Street, Suite 302

      Los Angeles, CA 90013

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      Copyright © 2020 by John Hanrahan

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever, including but not limited to print, audio, and electronic. For more information, address:

      Rare Bird Books Subsidiary Rights Department

      453 South Spring Street, Suite 302

      Los Angeles, CA 90013.

      Set in Minion

      Printed in the United States

      epub isbn: 9781644281529

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Hanrahan, John M., author.

      Title: Wrestling with Angels: A True Story of Addiction, Resurrection, Hope, Fashion, Training Celebrities, and Man’s Oldest Sport / John Hanrahan.

      Description: First Hardcover Edition | A Genuine Rare Bird Book | New York, NY;

      Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books, 2020.

      Identifiers: ISBN: 9781644281147

      Subjects: LCSH Hanrahan, John, author. | Wrestlers—United States—Biography. | Athletes—United States—Biography. | Models (Persons)—United States—Biography. | Personal trainers—Biography. | Fathers and sons—Biography. | Drug addicts—

      United States—Biography. | Drug addicts—Family relationships—United States. |

      BISAC BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs |

      BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports

      Classification: LCC GV331.H36 2020 | DDC 613.7/1092—dc23

      This book is dedicated to my family, and to all the families across the nation that have endured and are enduring the challenges of addiction. It is my hope that this book’s honest portrayal of a personal perspective, as well as a loving parent’s perspective, will help to provide hope and inspiration to those families to never give up. To those who are no longer here—including Gerry Harrington, who helped countless others with his generous spirit of hope and healing—this book is my prayer that those suffering gain the strength to conquer their challenges and that those who have lost loved ones know that their prayers were not unheard.

      Contents

       THE END & THE BEGINNING

       PART I

       ALL-AMERICAN BOY

       EVERYTHING BEGINS

       BEING WATCHED

       LOOKING DOWN ON MYSELF

       ALL-AMERICAN ADDICT

       WINNER & LOSER

       MODEL BEHAVIOR

       WRESTLING WITH THE FUTURE

       BIG CITY DREAMS DELAYED

       SUMO, THE PUSH TO STAY IN

       I’M THAT GUY

       THE PLEASURE DOME

       NOTED

       RUNNING FROM REALITY

       EUROPEAN ESCAPE

       BEGINNING OF THE END

       UN-MODEL BEHAVIOR

       INTERVENTION

       GOODBYE

       COULD NOT HOLD ON

       PART IIREFLECT THE LIGHT

       Call LEG-ORUB

       MODEL ENGAGEMENT

       STAR POWER

       GOT MARRIED TODAY

       LA PALESTRA

       REBORN IN WRESTLING

       LA LA LAND

       SEEKING WELLNESS

       OUR ANGEL WRESTLES WITH ADDICTION

       CALIFORNIA DREAMING & REALITY

       LIVING IN THE LIGHT

       CODA

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      THE END & THE BEGINNING

      “Have you planned his funeral?”

      That’s what the doctor said: Have you planned his funeral?

      He said this to us in a matter-of-fact way. Because it was pretty much a fact: Connor, our son, our firstborn, just nineteen years old, had been laid to waste by addiction.

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