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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.

Yeah, some little sweet days we'd be.

I check my bedbugs every day.

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

Hi Cheryl.

Hi Steve, how are you?

I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I do, as I often do, have a question for you,

which is whether in your illustrious romantic history,

you have ever gone back to somebody with whom you were already together

after a messy breakup and tried to reignite the flame, tried to retry the case.

I haven't gone back and restarted the relationship,

but I certainly have gone back and slept again with that former lover.

It was my first husband.

We had separated and we spent about a year trying to figure out

whether we were going to get back together or get divorced.

It became clear after a few months that we were getting divorced.

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