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Dear Sugars

Does 'The Wicked Stepmother' Still Feel Wicked?

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars revisit a letter from a woman who felt like a fairytale-esque wicked stepmother. When she wrote to the Sugars, she was feeling pressured to love her stepchildren "like her own," but she didn't want to be their mother. The Sugars find out how the self-proclaimed 'Wicked Stepmother' and her husband are doing today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dear Sugar is supported by...

0:07.2

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

0:11.6

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

0:17.0

I'm Cheryl Strait.

0:18.5

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

0:21.9

Oh dear, don't you please...

0:28.8

She has some little sweet days with me.

0:36.8

I check my bell vibes every day.

0:44.8

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

0:51.8

Hi Cheryl.

0:52.8

Hi Steve.

0:53.8

So we are going to have another update as we're doing all through all the month of August before we return with brand new, bigger and better episodes in September.

1:01.8

And we wanted to concentrate on an episode that really generated a tremendous amount of feedback.

1:07.8

This was the episode on the Wicked Step Mother.

1:10.8

And I should say the self-defined Wicked Step Mother.

1:13.8

Yes, that's right.

1:14.8

We weren't thinking she was wicked.

1:16.8

So at the end of this re-broadcast of the episode, we of course have these updates.

1:21.8

So we'll be back to read from the emails that we received.

1:24.8

We're also going to call the woman who signed herself the Wicked Step Mother.

1:29.8

She has an update for us about how life has continued on for her and what she did in response to our conversation, our advice.

1:36.8

That's right, so stay tuned for that.

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