There's a long timber dining table in Theodore Ell's home that's scattered with dark little nicks amongst the grain.
They're from the shards of glass that embedded themselves in the surface during the 2020 Beirut explosion.
Ell and his wife Caitlin, then a diplomat with the Department of Foreign Affairs, were inside their apartment at the time, and found themselves thrown against walls, battered by falling glass and debris, and just centimetres away from death.
