Ember No. 0001 · Quiet Heroes

He Lost Almost Everyone. He Stayed Kind Anyway.

5:58 · Told by Walt Hollis

Toronto, the late nineteen seventies. A tall, skinny teenager walks the hall of his fourth high school. Reading is hard for him, but on the ice they call him The Wall. Remember him. The hardest years of his life are still ahead, and so is the way he answers them.

A man sitting alone in a dim hospital hallway, head in his hands

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Sources and reading open after the reveal, below the video.