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Tom Hanks daughter,Elizabeth Ann Hanks, has opened up about herchildhoodin her newmemoir.

Hanks, is the daughter ofTom Hanksand his first wife, Samantha Lewes.

My dad came to pick us up from school, and were not there, recalls the writer.

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And it turns out we havent been there for two weeks, and he has to track us down.

I have one picture of me standing between my parents.

In it, my mothers best wig is slightly askew.

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She writes that she believes her mother lived with undiagnosed bipolar disorder with episodes of extreme paranoia and delusion.

She adds that their custody arrangement basically switched, and after that point, she only visited Sacramento occasionally.

Her mothers passing has left Elizabeth with many unanswered questions from her childhood.

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Their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, was born in 1982.

However, their happiness was cut short, and the couple separated in 1985.

Their divorce was finalized two years later.

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While Lewes never remarried, Tom Hanks went on to marry actress Rita Wilson in 1988.

They have been together ever since and share two sons together,Chet Hanksand Truman Hanks.

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