Biker Story
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Part 2: I Sold My Harley of 27 Years to Pay My Wife’s Cancer Bills and Lied to Her That It Was “In the Shop” — A Year Later, I Opened the Garage and Saw the Same Bike Sitting There
To understand what selling that Harley meant, you have to understand what twenty-seven years on a single motorcycle does to…
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Part 2: A Deaf 9-Year-Old Has Never Heard a Sound In His Life — Then My 280-Pound Neighbor Did Something With His Harley That Made My Son Draw a Picture I’ll Frame Forever
In the third week Dale was our neighbor — a Saturday afternoon in late May — I was on the…
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Part 2: They Stripped His Vest, Burned His Patches, and Banished Him 10 Years Ago — The Night His Old President’s Son Crashed on I-25, He Was the First Man on the Scene
Front Range Brotherhood MC was founded in 1991 in a body shop on Northern Avenue. We are not a 1%…
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Part 2: My Daughter Wrote Her School Essay About Me — A Biker. Her Teacher Called Me In Because of “Concerning Themes.” I Took Off the Raincoat I’d Been Wearing for 8 Years to Hide the Cut
I want to tell you who I am at home. Not who I am on a ride. Not who I…
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Part 2: A 280-Pound Biker Got Caught With a Pink Lunchbox at the Garage — The Three Words Scrawled on the Lid Made the Whole Club Stop Talking
To understand Tank, you have to understand what Linda has been through with him. Marcus came home from Desert Storm…
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Part 2: My 8-Year-Old Asked Why I Had So Many Scars — I Took My Shirt Off and Named Every One. The Last Scar I Named After Him
Megan and I were married on May 19th, 2014. Eight months after I came home from my last deployment. Three…
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Part 2: I Followed the Scariest Biker in My Club Every Tuesday Night for a Month — What I Found Him Doing in a Hello Kitty Apron Broke My Whole Idea of Manhood
You do not become Reaper without earning it. Michael Garrison was born on May 11th, 1976, in a Catholic hospital…
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Part 2: A 15-Year-Old Showed Up at a Biker Garage Holding a 20-Year-Old Photograph — “Is This My Dad?” The Reason His Mother Left Took Us Both a Year to Talk About
The boy’s name is Caleb. Caleb James Whittaker. Born March 4th, 2004. He is fifteen — sixteen now — and…
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Part 2: I Hated My Biker Father for 35 Years Because He Went to Prison When I Was 5 — At 40, a Court File on My Kitchen Table Showed Me Why
To understand what was in the tin, you have to understand who my mother was. Diane Halloran grew up in…
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Part 2: A Biker Got 4 Hours With His Daughter Every Sunday for 8 Years — He Took Her for Ice Cream and Counted Every Cone. What He Gave Her at Her Wedding 22 Years Later Wrecked the Whole Room
Beau was raised by his grandfather in a small house outside Centralia, Illinois. His own father had walked out when…
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