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Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When Steve Lickteig turned 18, he learned that his mother and father, who he thought were his adoptive parents, are in fact his biological grandparents. With the advent of affordable DNA testing and companies like 23andMe, more and more people are having revelations like Mr. Lickteig’s. For some, these revelations can be a welcome and exciting discovery process. For others, they’re shocking and unwanted. In today’s episode, Mr. Lickteig shares his story and helps the Sugars advise letter writers who are still reeling from their genetic discoveries. This episode was originally aired on June 16, 2018.

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0:00.0	WBUR'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
0:11.4	let mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.3	WBUR Podcasts.
0:22.3	Boston.
0:34.7	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:39.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:42.6	I'm Steve Olman.
0:43.8	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:44.8	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:46.8	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:53.8	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:01.8	I check my bedbugs every day.
1:08.8	Oh, and this sugar, you see it my way.
1:18.8	Hi Steve.
1:19.8	Hi Cheryl.
1:20.8	So we're going to discuss today something that I've become really fascinated with.
1:25.7	Ancestry and in particular, what has been happening as many of us have started to do this DNA genetic
1:32.9	testing and getting information about where we came from, what our lineage is.
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