12/09/2025
đś My three kids never visited me once while I was dying of cancerâŚ
but a rough, tattooed biker Iâd never met held my hand every single day.
Iâm 73, lying in a hospice bed with stage-four lung cancer.
I raised three children alone after their mother ran off. I worked 70-hour weeks. Paid for college, weddings, down payments, everything.
And now Iâm dying alone.
Not one of them has visited in six months.
Stephanie lives 20 minutes away â sheâs âtoo busyâ with her country club friends.
Michael called once. Said he might âtryâ to come, but heâs âswamped.â
David said hospice was âtoo depressingâ and heâd âremember me the way I was.â
So I spent four months alone. Nurses checked my vitals. Chaplain came once a week. But no family. No one who cared that my time was almost over.
Until last Tuesday.
A huge biker with a gray beard down to his chest walked into my room by mistake. Boots, patches, leather vest. He was looking for his buddyâs dad. Wrong door.
He turned to leaveâŚ
then saw my Purple Heart on the nightstand.
âYou served?â he asked.
âVietnam,â I croaked. âSixty-eight to seventy.â
He stepped back into the room, stood at attention, and SALUTED.
âTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, BROTHER.â
Nobody had called me brother in 50 years.
He sat beside me. âYou got family coming today?â
I shook my head.
âHow long since someone visited?â
Six fingers.
His jaw clenched. âSIX MONTHS? Youâre DYING and no oneâs been here?â
I nodded.
âYou got kids?â
Three fingers.
âThree kids and NONE of them visit their father?â His voice shook with anger. âWhere the hell ARE they?â
I whispered their names. Their addresses. Their excuses.
Marcus listened. Then leaned close.
âBrother⌠I canât make them love you. But I can make DAMN SURE they regret abandoning you. You want that?â
I nodded.
He grinned. Like a man whoâd just found a mission.
âGood. Because I got a plan. And itâs going to HAUNT them for the rest of their lives.â
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