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Dear Sugars

Dear Sugar, Episode 1: Meet The Sugars

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the pilot episode, the Sugars field questions on a father’s infidelity, how many children is too many, and whether a relationship can survive when one partner is smarter than the other.

Transcript

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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.

1:15.0

Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way.

1:22.0

A few years ago I started writing an advice column for a relatively obscure

1:27.0

website called the Rumpus and basically assigned myself the job of being an

1:32.0

advice columnist which is on one hand kind of you're a

1:35.9

giver of advice you're empathic you're doing the world a favor but in a much more

1:40.4

fundamental level it's incredibly narcissistic and you're essentially

1:43.8

saying I have all the answers and so the way I solved that dilemma was I created

1:48.0

this persona I wasn't writing the advice columnist Olman. I was writing as somebody named

1:53.5

Sugar and Sugar in my mind and my imagination was a woman of a certain age probably

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