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Dear Sugars

Episodes We Love: Family By Proxy

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When a family experiences loss, familial roles are often redefined. In this episode, the Sugars answer letters from people who are unexpectedly charged with caring for new family members. This episode was originally released on February 10th, 2018.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Not letting an unexpected period or a bit of pee damp in your day?

0:05.0

That's life-changing! At Mottie Body, we do absorb it a parallel for periods, pee, sweat and more.

0:11.0

Visit MottieBody.com, Mottie Body, Life-Changing a Parallel.

0:31.0

String, string, strings, up and strings up!

0:36.0

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

0:42.0

Find them all in the cheese and york guitar.

0:45.0

Strings and things.

0:47.0

Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston.

1:01.0

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

1:05.0

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

1:09.0

I'm Steve Olmey.

1:10.0

I'm Cheryl Strait.

1:11.0

This is Dear Sugar's.

1:14.0

Oh dear song, won't you please?

1:21.0

Share some little sweet days with me.

1:29.0

I check my bell by every day.

1:36.0

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

1:44.0

Hi Cheryl.

1:45.0

Hi Steve.

1:46.0

You know Cheryl, there are many reasons that I love doing this show.

1:51.0

One of the reasons is because we come from very different places

1:55.0

and it's rare and true gift when we become good friends with somebody who really is lived a different life, different story.

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