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What really happened to Dovi Henry, a promising Ottawa poet found dead, decomposing in the water, along Toronto’s lakefront on July 27, 2014?

And why did it take almost two years — and his mother’s own detective work — to finally identify the morgue remains on April 29, 2016?

Maureen Henry, 53, would like to know — dearly. “I couldn’t rest,” she said one day this week. “It just did not make sense. He was not a guy to just disappear.”

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As she spoke, she sorted through Dovi’s things, kept in a large bin at her Breezehill Avenue home, including a photo album, Love You to the Moon and Back, little books with hand-written poetry and Mother’s Day cards in verse.

It just did not make sense. He was not a guy to just disappear

She refuses to accept Dovi may have taken his own life. “That’s not Dovi.”

A mother of three, she describes a stressful 18 months during which she repeatedly tried to locate her oldest, a Glebe Collegiate graduate who died shortly after his 23rd birthday.