diff --git a/src/clj_jtwig/options.clj b/src/clj_jtwig/options.clj
index 4bd7496..6d20e15 100644
--- a/src/clj_jtwig/options.clj
+++ b/src/clj_jtwig/options.clj
@@ -33,9 +33,4 @@
      ; whether or not to automatically stringify the keys of model-maps. Jtwig requires that all
      ; the keys will be strings for model value resolution to work correctly. if you are already
      ; setting your keys as maps, then you can turn this option off to save a bit on performance
-     ; NOTE: why use false as a default? less "magic" out of the box. most people when first
-     ;       using this library will probably run into this issue and then want to turn this
-     ;       option on, but i think that's preferable (forcing the user to learn about this)
-     ;       then later on wondering why the value from the model passed to a custom jtwig
-     ;       function has strings for keys instead of keywords, etc...
-     :stringify-keys                   false}))
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+     :stringify-keys                   true}))
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