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Dear Sugars

Dear Sugar Live In Portland: Part 1

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars record the show in front of a live audience at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR. In Part 1, they talk reinvention with the writer Lidia Yuknavitch, asking: "How can we treat our mistakes as opportunities for growth, rather than moments of total self-destruction?"

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0:00.0

Dear Sugar is supported by.

0:10.6

The universe has good news.

0:13.2

For the last, lonely, and heart-seek,

0:16.2

Sugar is here, the both of us,

0:19.0

speaking straight into your ears.

0:21.6

I'm Cheryl Strait.

0:23.1

I'm Steve Alman.

0:24.5

This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:30.0

Oh, just someone won't you please.

0:38.0

Share some bit of sweetness with me.

0:44.0

I check my mailbox every day.

0:50.0

For some bit of sugar, you'll send my way.

1:00.0

Thank you.

1:14.0

Now, we do not have the benefit of the beautiful and talented Angela Freeman in our studio usually

1:20.0

when we're recording.

1:22.0

No, she was fantastic.

1:24.0

Usually that's me in the same dress trying to sing like that and it never comes off.

1:30.0

I just don't carry it.

1:32.0

That's right.

1:34.0

It's a little different seeing Angela in that dress than you, Steve.

1:36.0

I have to say.

1:38.0

She wears it well.

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