The Little Girl Asked If the Biker Was a Bear — His Answer Reached Six Million People

Synopsis

I had worked at that gas station for eleven years by the afternoon Lucy met the bear. That meant I already knew the biker. His real name was Raymond Holloway, but almost nobody along our stretch of Route 66 called him Raymond. Older riders called him Bear. Mechanics called him Bear. The waitress at the diner near the interstate wrote BEAR — BLACK COFFEE on…