On days like these, Garett Bolles still remembers the top of the stairs. Sitting there as his teenage years waned, in a home in Utah he wasn’t sure how much longer would be his, conditioned towards abandonment. Hearing his adopted mother Emily Freeman say the words that gave him purpose.
I’m going to be there when you get married. I’m going to be there when you have kids. I’m going to be there.
On days like these, Bolles only needs a slight push to remember where he’s come from. A reporter asked the Broncos left tackle Thursday about Greg and Emily Freeman, the family that picked up Bolles on the side of the road and took him in after he’d been kicked out.