After, kids surrounded me. Wanting to see the biker hero. Parents thanked me. One mom said her daughter had been leaving money in dog collars at the shelter “for the motorcycle angels.”
“You started something,” she said.
All because a seven-year-old girl believed angels rode motorcycles.
All because $7.43 in tooth fairy money was worth more than leaving a dog to die alone.
All because sometimes, when you’re angry at the world for taking good people too soon, you find a reason to be good yourself.
Daisy lived one extra year. Madison got to say goodbye properly. Tom got to see his daughter heal. And I got a family when I thought I’d lost my only one.
The note’s framed next to Madison’s drawing. Purple crayon on notebook paper. “$7.43. It’s all my tooth fairy money.”Continue reading…
