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There's a whole range of strings and things called strings and things, including cheese strings,

yollies and cheese shapes. Find them all in the cheese and york guitar.

Hi, this is Steve, just a quick word of warning that we'll be discussing intimate partner violence

on this episode.

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. The sugars are here, speaking

straight into your ears. I'm Steve Alman. I'm Cheryl Strait. This is Dear Sugar's.

Oh dear song, won't you please?

Yeah, some better sweet days with me.

I check my bedbub every day.

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

Hi, Steve. Hi, Cheryl.

So I have a story for you. I was 27 years old. I had just moved to Portland, Oregon. I had just

finished hiking on the Pacific Rostral and came here to make my life a new.

And I was staying for a while with a woman who was really, really one of my dearest, dearest friends.

I met her less than a year after my mom died and she was a few years older. So almost

immediately we became not only really close, but there was this dynamic where I was essentially

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