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AJ got sober in the middle of the Hulk Hogan trial, three months in, every defect of character tossed to a jury. He calls it fourth step dinner theater. He built The Small Bow afterward for people who are past rock bottom and a little adrift, which is a lot of you. We tried to name the category sober media belongs in. I said The Sober Curator is sober BuzzFeed and The Small Bow is literary meat.

Panel scores, fulls and halves only: “Running Point” S2 got a 3.5, “Your Friends & Neighbors” S2 got a 4.5, “Imperfect Women” got a 3.5. Senior Contributor Lane Kennedy tried to file a 4.75 and is now on strike. Which one did we get wrong? Give us your Sobees score and one sentence of evidence.

A box of LEGO bricks may not look like a recovery tool, but the lessons are surprisingly familiar: follow the instructions, take it one piece at a time, stay present and make room for play. Tamar Routly explores what a plastic brick from Denmark can teach us about building a sober life that actually holds.

You know the feeling when you walk into a room and immediately know: these are my people. On Episode 3, I asked our contributors one simple question, why The Sober Curator, and what came back was funnier, messier, and more honest than I expected.