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Ryan turned the laptop around. He hit playback. The raw recording filled the empty room. They listened to the whole thing—the fall, the crash, the slow, trembling rise.

“Too much?” Ben asked.

When it finished, the last piano note faded into the echo of the gymnasium. Neither of them spoke for a long time. macklemore & ryan lewis wing

“I’m not ready to die. But I’m too tired to live.” Ryan turned the laptop around

Finally, Ben looked at the floor, at the same worn spot where he’d learned to dribble a ball as a kid. “My dad used to tell me,” he said quietly, “that you don’t have to fix the whole plane. You just have to keep the wing from falling off.” Ben looked at the floor