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With hockey shirts decorating the wall, a favourite video game on TV and a cell phone not far away, Henry Black is everything you would expect from a 16-year-old.
With hockey shirts decorating the wall, a favourite video game on TV, and a cellphone not far away, Henry Black is everything you might expect from a 16-year-old.
But on June 25, 2024, a bike ride changed his life forever.
“It started off a very average day,” said Black, recalling the day he biked with a friend down to the water in the Scarborough Bluffs, a popular spot in Toronto’s east end.
The friends considered going for a swim, but the water was too cold, so they kept biking. It was getting dark, and the teenagers found themselves at the top of a hill. Black saw a small stump towards the bottom and wanted to jump over it with his bike.
“I started going down and I was, like, ‘Wait, I’m like going very fast,’ and then I remember being like, ‘Oh crap.’”
He hit a tree.
His friend called 911 and Black’s parents.
Black’s father, Gary, was out of town for business.
