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The Most Popular Story of 2023

This is the one The Small Bow readers loved more than any other.

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Dec 15, 2023
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This was a surprise, but according to every single quantifiable metric, the essay I published in August about my jiu-jitsu tournament was the one people dug the most. Usually, it’s the real gooey stuff—my kids, or the family dementia, or Al-Anon shit—that wins everyone’s heart but, nope, this year it was this one mighty triumph. So thank you. I’ve taken…

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