Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me

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Sylvia Harris. Long Shot: My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me

Long Shot

Sylvia Harris. with Eunetta T. Boone and Bill Boulware

Dedication

Contents

Preface

The Race

The Start

Furlong One

Furlong Two

Furlong Three

Furlong Four

Furlong Five

Furlong Six

Furlong Seven

Furlong Eight

Furlong Nine

Furlong Ten

The Finish

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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My Bipolar Life and the Horses Who Saved Me

to my mother, Evaliene Fontenette Harris,

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I went to my mother, hoping she might influence my dad. “Can’t you get Daddy to change his mind? Please, Mom. I won’t need any Christmas or birthday presents—ever,” I said.

“Your father knows best, Sylvia,” which was code for they weren’t speaking. I may have only been twelve turning thirteen, but I knew my parents barely talked to each other. There always seemed to be something going on between them. My mother was little, like me, and hadn’t been healthy for years. She had Crohn’s disease, a chronic, episodic, inflammatory bowel disease that at times caused her great pain and forced her to undergo several surgeries. At one point, she even went down to seventy pounds and couldn’t lift herself out of the bed. My baby brother and I would try to help, but most of the load fell to my father, and he seemed to resent it.

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