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BJ Campbell's avatar

This is an old article. I wouldn't have reposted it if Quillette hadn't put the original behind a paywall. The only reason I ever gave it to Quillette in the first place was I thought it deserved more traffic than I could get hosting it on Medium where I was writing at the time. They offered to pay me for the article and I never accepted the payment.

I was asked by a couple of people why I chose Quillette to put it in - both were left of center and they probably bobbed around Q and saw a lot of the antiwoke material they were publishing at the time. The reason was twofold - I knew the Euro editor of Q at the time by Twitter connection, and the other reason was the woke were in a full steam attack on "stoicism" at the time, claiming it was toxic. I needed a wokefree space to share the story, which was largely about Buffy's stoicism.

It did get a lot of traffic. I never found out how much, but I literally bumped into a random mom on Facebook a year after this got published who recognized me from the article, and said that they discussed it in Sunday School. So the reach Quillette gave the article must have been quite large, and for that I'm thankful.

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Daniel D's avatar

That's a beautifully written tribute to your wife. Very raw and real; you're an incredible writer to be able to put those profoundly difficult, painful, and deeply personal experiences into words. Best wishes for you and your children.

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