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Dear Sugars

Encore: The Empty Chair, Part 1

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the Empty Chair series, the Sugars discuss early childhood death, an absence that can be ever-present. In Part 1, they read letters from siblings who live in the the shadow of their parents’ grief. This episode was originally released on November 4th, 2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things

0:06.1

that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let

0:11.5

mysteries go unsolved.

0:13.7

Don't miss season 3, out now.

0:16.2

Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:25.1

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

0:29.5

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

0:33.0

I'm Steve Alman.

0:34.2

I'm Cheryl Strait.

0:35.2

This is Dear Sugar's.

0:37.2

Oh dear song, won't you please?

0:45.4

Yeah, some little sweet days with me.

1:09.2

Hi Steve.

1:10.2

Hi Cheryl.

1:11.2

So we are going to do one of our two part episodes.

1:14.6

We're calling it the empty chair.

1:17.1

And what it's about really is the experience of living in the shadow of grief, and particularly

1:25.8

the kind of grief that happens when a child in a family dies.

1:30.1

And of course the parents are grieving that death.

1:33.2

And sometimes there are siblings that were either alive when the child died or who will

1:37.5

be born after the death of that older sibling they never knew.

1:41.6

And really that experience is a very particular one.

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