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The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

Oh dear, don't you please.

There's some little sweet days we've been.

I check my bell by every day.

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.

Hey Cheryl.

I'm Steve. How you doing?

I'm doing good. I have a kind of odd confession.

It has to do with this letter that we're going to talk about.

It's not exactly the same as the letter, but I kept thinking about this in my life.

This thing that I do in my life, which I have not told a lot of people about.

But now I'm going to tell you, and whoever is listening, I for many, many years from the time I was very young, have been a shoplifter.

Really?

Yes, I take things that I have not paid for and put them into my pockets.

I've done this since I was very young.

What's your first memory?

I'm an old barrel, going to the old barrel, stealing a couple of grape sticks, the jelly rancher grape sticks, and getting caught.

My dad caught me. I was like, where did you get the money for that?

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