Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.

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 little sweet days with me.

I check my bedbugs every day.

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

Hi, Steve.

Hi Cheryl.

Here we are at another rapid fire episode.

You know, I dream of the day that we do get the poop poop.

It's gonna happen.

These are fun for me because we get to answer a whole bunch of different questions in one episode.

And oftentimes we've been drawing upon a theme where it's like we did love and doubt or we've done messy relationships.

And one thing that listeners might not know of, we have this inbox that we try to organize into these folders.

And so the folders will say, you know, like, you know, dysfunctional childhood.

Inferdility.

And what we decided to do today is actually answer a bunch of letters that we cannot drag into any of those boxes.

We call them the inbox outliers.

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