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Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 35 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. The writer Ariel Henley joins the Sugars to talk about her own facial differences. Henley was born with Crouzon Syndrome. As a child, she underwent dozens of surgeries that permanently changed the shape of her face. This episode was originally released December 16th, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:21.0	I'm Steve Alman.
0:22.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:23.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:27.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:34.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:42.0	I check my bedbub every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	So, Cheryl, I want to read you something.
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	I've been thinking about it.
1:02.0	This singularity of meaning, I was my face.
1:06.0	I was ugliness.
1:08.0	When asked what was wrong with my life.
1:11.0	Everything led to it.
1:13.0	Everything receded from it.
1:15.0	My face as personal vanishing point.
1:19.0	When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone.
1:27.0	Without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.
1:34.0	Lucy Greeley.
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