Dear Sugar: Do I Tell My Mom I'm Gay?
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars take a question from a young man whose mother has metastatic breast cancer. He is spending a month back home in Kentucky over the summer, then returning to graduate school in the fall. He is wracked with guilt about not being with her, but also at the thought of her dying without knowing who he really is — a gay man in a family where homosexuality has always been condemned.
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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. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. |
| 0:26.8 | UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:30.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:41.0 | 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. |
| 1:05.0 | I check my bell-bives every day. Oh, in the sugar you see in my way. |
| 1:21.0 | Dear sugars, my mother was recently diagnosed with meditastic breast cancer. |
| 1:27.0 | She fought breast cancer ten years ago and we have learned that some of those cancer cells that |
| 1:31.3 | had been dormant in her bones are now back in full attack. |
| 1:35.8 | She started her treatments immediately and were waiting to see how and if she can handle them. |
| 1:41.2 | This cancer is advanced stage four, the doctors said. |
| 1:44.4 | There is no cure but it can be managed. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm writing to you sugars because I am feeling a weight of guilt being her child. |
| 1:51.4 | I'm 24 years old and attending graduate school in California |
| 1:55.2 | while she and my family are in Kentucky. I'm studying acting, pursuing what I |
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