“Seven years ago, I was being sold in a gas station bathroom. Three men were bidding on me like I was property. I’d given up. Accepted that this was my life now. That I’d die young in some hotel room somewhere and nobody would care.”
She looked at me.
“People ask me why I trust bikers. Why I ride with them. Why I call them family. It’s because when everyone else—the system, the police, regular people at truck stops—when everyone else looked away, a biker didn’t.”
“He saw a sixteen-year-old girl mouthing ‘help me’ and he helped.”
The crowd was crying. Two hundred bikers. All crying.
“So when people tell me bikers are dangerous, I tell them they’re right. Bikers are dangerous. Dangerous to traffickers. Dangerous to abusers. Dangerous to anyone who hurts the innocent.”
“Because bikers don’t look away.”
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