Summary
10-year-old Phil's dreams were dark.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, to describe it. Have you ever jumped out of a plane? |
| 0:07.0 | Brett Moorfield doesn't jump out of planes, but he does love the open road. It's just free. |
| 0:14.0 | The closest you can get to flying. |
| 0:16.0 | Both my adopted dad and biological father rode motorcycles. |
| 0:21.0 | When I saw all the people riding by on their bikes, it just... motorcycles. a town in Northeast Indiana and rides his motorcycle every day. |
| 0:35.0 | You got the wind in your face, the sun beating down on you. |
| 0:40.0 | Look behind you in your mirror and see hundreds of bikes just rolling over a little hill. |
| 0:46.0 | I forget my worries, just look out and it's wind therapy. |
| 0:58.2 | When he's not riding, Brent spends a lot of time on projects helping others. |
| 1:03.7 | Every Christmas he collects money and buys presents for families who can't afford them. That's how we met Tammy Mick. |
| 1:06.0 | Tammy has three kids and as she talked to Brent at the motorcycle shop about Christmas, |
| 1:10.6 | she told him about one of them in particular her youngest Phil who was 10 at the time |
| 1:16.0 | One day she said when Phil came home from school |
| 1:18.9 | Tammy noticed he was holding his hand to his head. He was hiding his forehead, and I went to move his hand |
| 1:24.7 | to see what was wrong, and I found it. |
| 1:26.4 | A goose egg on my head? |
| 1:28.3 | I was fire engine mad. |
| 1:30.8 | I asked him what happened, and he finally broke down and told me. |
| 1:34.0 | He said a boy at school slammed his head into a wall and it wasn't the first time he got |
| 1:38.0 | picked on. |
| 1:39.0 | Although his mother didn't know it, he told her, kids had bullied him for two years they'd kick him hit him make |
| 1:45.9 | fun of his clothes and taunt him for being overweight it felt like I was underground |
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