An Experiment In Radical Brevity

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Wbur, Advice, Steve Almond, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Sugar, Dear, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars try something new — answering more questions, more quickly. While they always give their hearts and souls to the letters they receive, some questions are just a little more straightforward. The Sugars take on six quick questions, from siblings discovering incriminating texts on their father's phone to women reeling from encounters with sociopaths to this single sentence — "what do I do if I can't stand to stay with him but I can't stand to leave him either?"

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0:00.0	Must remember, do not forget.
0:07.0	Remind me to bring photo ID.
0:11.0	Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote.
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:19.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.1	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.
0:29.2	Dear Sugar is supported by
0:42.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your
0:46.2	ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:51.6	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:59.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:07.0	I check my bell-bives every day.
1:11.0	Every day. Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way.
1:18.0	Hi Cheryl, Hi, Steve.
1:23.0	We're going to do something unconventional.
1:25.8	We have not done this before.
1:27.4	It's an experiment, it might just blow up in our faces.
1:30.8	And what we're going to do is answer questions much more quickly than we have in the past.
1:36.0	We find that there's most of the letters we get, we anguish over.
1:40.0	I think I speak for both of us.
1:41.0	It's complicated, it's nuanced, there are lots of layers, there
1:44.1	are questions underneath the questions, and we sometimes get questions where the question is a little bit
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