Happy One Year Of Sugar

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars look back at some of the most memorable letters of 2015. They check back in on a young gay man who was agonizing over whether to come out to his homophobic family, and a new mother who was struggling with boundaries after her alcoholic father relapsed during his first visit with his granddaughter.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.2	The Universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:11.6	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, don't you please...
0:27.9	Yeah, some little sweet days would be.
0:34.9	I check my bell by every day.
0:43.9	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.9	Hi Cheryl.
0:52.9	Hi Steve, Happy Anniversary.
0:54.9	Happy Anniversary to you, lady friend.
0:56.9	We survived one year of Dear Sugar Radio and listeners you survived it with us.
1:01.9	Yes, and you know we received literally thousands of letters this year and even more remarkably red every one of them.
1:09.9	Yes, all kinds of topics.
1:11.9	Friendship, infidelity, motherhood, single fatherhood, sibling rivalry, addiction, break ups, coming out, body image, the teenage years.
1:19.9	There isn't one subject that we're not interested in discussing on this show and it's been fabulous that we've had the opportunity to talk about so many.
1:28.9	And within all of those different subjects we find the same themes are the really kind of questions coming up over and over again.
1:36.9	They're just kind of wrapped in a different context.
1:39.9	The central one is, you know, kind of do I have the right to feel what I'm feeling?
1:43.9	Even more kind of fundamental existential questions will I ever not feel this way?
1:48.9	Can I ever escape my past?
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