Seven-year-old Emma was dying of bone cancer in room 312. Her mother abandoned her. Her father was in prison. For six weeks, no one visited. She thought she was dying because \u201cnobody loved her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then four bikers walked in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m Jack \u201cHammer\u201d Davidson of the Steel Brotherhood MC. A nurse had called us, voice shaking, saying Emma loved motorcycles and believed bikers were \u201cthe bravest people in the world.\u201d She didn\u2019t believe anyone like us would ever want to meet her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we rode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we saw her\u2014tiny, bald, fragile\u2014our hearts broke. But her eyes lit up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019re real bikers,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She asked our road names, then said softly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have anything. I\u2019m dying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came her question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWill you sing at my funeral? So it won\u2019t be so scary?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our biggest guy, Tank, stood up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma\u2019s face fell\u2014until he added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not singing at your funeral\u2026 because you\u2019re one of us now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He placed a tiny leather vest on her blanket. On the back was her road name:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LITTLE THUNDER.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n She smiled for the first time in weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We visited every day after that. She never spent another moment alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two weeks later, she passed away\u2014wearing her vest, surrounded by her bikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At her funeral, we rode in formation, engines roaring like thunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She didn\u2019t leave this world forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She left as family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven-year-old Emma was dying of bone cancer in room 312. Her mother abandoned her. Her father was in prison. For six weeks, no one visited. She thought… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}