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    The Bipolar Bear
    The Bipolar Bear
    The Bipolar Bear
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    The Bipolar Bear

    By Neal Wooten

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    The Bipolar Bear is a 5200-word non-fiction story about my late father, who was the strongest and most intelligent person I’ve ever known. He loved to laugh, make others laugh, and people were drawn to his charms. He was very affectionate and loving, and the scariest and most violent man you can imagine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeal Wooten
    Release dateApr 7, 2016
    ISBN9781311836618
    The Bipolar Bear
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    Neal Wooten

    Neal Wooten grew up on a pig farm on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of Alabama. The first person in the history of his family to graduate from high school, Neal went on to graduate from Auburn University with a B.S. in applied mathematics. He became a math teacher and director of a math school in Milwaukee, winning numerous math awards.  He is now the Managing Editor for Mirror Publishing, a contributor to the Huffington Post, columnist for The Mountain Valley News, curator of the Fort Payne Depot Museum, creator of the popular Facebook comic strip “Brad’s Pit,” and standup comedian.

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      The Bipolar Bear - Neal Wooten

      The Bipolar Bear

      Neal Wooten

      Dad had a stroke.

      The traffic and interstate signs blurred together as my sister's words played over and over in my mind. I drove north on I-65 from my home in Montgomery, Alabama to Birmingham via reflexes only.

      How do they know it was a stroke? I had asked.

      His speech, Neenah replied. His speech is slurred. He tries to talk and it comes out wrong. He was laughing at himself at how ridiculous he sounds.

      That sounded like Dad all right, Travis O'Neal Wooten, whom I was named after. Yes, in a social breach of etiquette, Dad gave me the same name, but added a II. Titles like the Second and the Third generally passed from grandfather to grandson, but it did keep me from being called Junior and that was all right by me.

      Dad loved to laugh. He loved to make people laugh. He knew more jokes than any one person I've ever known. I do believe his mind retained every joke, practical joke, and riddle he ever heard. He certainly had his favorites, which he tormented us with over and over, but he still could tell ones that were completely new to me.

      ***

      Which is correct, he would ask his unsuspecting victim, "six and seven is eleven, or six and seven are eleven?"

      The subject of the riddle would be quick to point out the proper grammar. Six and seven is eleven.

      Here's where Dad would laugh

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