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

Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

I'm Steve Almond.

This is Dear Sugar Radio.

Oh dear song, won't you please?

Share 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.

Here we are, part two of our end of your episode.

Yes, this is like the letter writers not revenge exactly, but they have their say.

And their say is so voluminous that we wanted to really give that it's due.

And our inbox overflow with really fascinating interesting responses to any of the approximately 40 episodes we did last year.

And one of the series that got the most response and the most of the cipherous response was looking for the one.

When we set out last year, we were saying, okay people who were looking for love, looking for that one partner.

What we found when we really looked more closely at our letters is that they were all from women, which I thought was really interesting, because I think they're plenty of men out there looking for love.

But we got lots of letters from women saying will I ever find love?

And so we decided to kind of undertake it from a few different angles, part one, two, three.

That's right.

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