The Ryan Gosling thing — you know, the photo of him calmly feeding a stray dog outside some diner — floated across my phone in the middle of revising the brachial plexus tonight. The same stray I see outside our hostel gate, the one with the crooked tail, her ribs showing through. It made me think of how Mikel spends 90 minutes trying to suture a team together with invisible thread, and we all hold our breath hoping the next tackle doesn’t reopen the wound. Between our injury list and his quiet way of holding the line, maybe the trophy isn't the point—maybe the point is that someone stays gentle even when everything around them is fraying.
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