Well, when you've barely seen a camera in just about thirty years...
（ it's almost cavalier in its self-deprecation. joel takes a deep breath, but it catches and trembles and hangs up in his ribcage in all the wrong ways. it feels like trying to breathe with broken ribs. he read about flail chest once in a medical textbook, hoping that wasn't it one time tommy got hurt real bad, and lived somehow.
you have moments in your life that seem to stretch on into forever. they ain't long themselves, usually. but they're stamped on you like a brand, and they define who you are in ways the rest of the chaff of existence just can't. this ain't one of them, but it feels like an echo of another — standing on that porch, with ellie talkin' about how her life should have mattered. ）
Gotta say, I'm real disappointed there's no coffee on the moon.
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Date: 2020-12-19 04:24 pm (UTC)（ it's almost cavalier in its self-deprecation. joel takes a deep breath, but it catches and trembles and hangs up in his ribcage in all the wrong ways. it feels like trying to breathe with broken ribs. he read about flail chest once in a medical textbook, hoping that wasn't it one time tommy got hurt real bad, and lived somehow.
you have moments in your life that seem to stretch on into forever. they ain't long themselves, usually. but they're stamped on you like a brand, and they define who you are in ways the rest of the chaff of existence just can't. this ain't one of them, but it feels like an echo of another — standing on that porch, with ellie talkin' about how her life should have mattered. ）
Gotta say, I'm real disappointed there's no coffee on the moon.