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Sara B's avatar

Pretty touching story as always! Thanks for sharing this story with us 🙂

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

Amazing comment as always! Thank you for reading, Sara!

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Kimber S Prewit's avatar

"I bet you won’t get past the first fight."

Seigfried: Challenge accepted.

"No one’s ever beat this one before! What makes you think you will?"

Seigfried: Watch me motherfucker.

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

🥊🤺🥷

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Elena Giralt's avatar

!!! so good!

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Powerful, Andrei. Really powerful. Thank you for opening up and sharing.

Amongst the power of the story, there's some great lines:

"It was no locker room, no football field, no dojo" -- I love the feel of the flow of this line.

"he eventually quit to start a successful small business, only for the 2008 recession to smack him back to kitchen-sink reality." -- I felt the joy and then cried an internal "nooo!" at this.

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

Thanks a bunch for all the kindness, Nathan! I’m glad you found something to like. Coming back to writing essays has been refreshing. I can’t wait for you guys to see what I have planned next.

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

Thank you, Maureen!

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