Encore: The Ugly Truth

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Most of us have days when we don’t feel attractive. But in this episode, the Sugars read letters from people whose faces are at odds with conventional ideas of beauty. Writer Ariel Henley joins to talk about her own facial differences. Henley was born with Crouzon Syndrome, and underwent dozens of surgeries that changed the shape of her face.

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0:35.7	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:40.2	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:43.7	I'm Steve Almond.
0:44.9	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:46.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:49.8	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:57.1	Share some better sweet days with me.
1:04.7	I check my bedbugs every day.
1:12.4	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
1:19.8	So, Cheryl, I want to read you something.
1:21.8	Okay.
1:22.8	I've been thinking about it.
1:24.2	This singularity of meaning, I was my face, I was ugliness,
1:30.1	when asked what was wrong with my life.
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