Letters From Teenagers

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For most of us, our teenage years were marked by feelings of insecurity, loneliness and uncertainty. This week, the Sugars revisit an episode in which they discussed questions exclusively from teenagers. They're joined by Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor of Rookie, a digital magazine for teenage girls.

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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 Strayed.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, so won't you please?
0:28.8	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:36.8	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:43.8	Oh, and this sugar, you sing my way.
0:51.8	We're answering letters from teenagers today, talking about what it means to be a teenager,
0:56.8	but for us back in the day, what it means for kids today.
1:00.8	What was Cheryl Strayed like as a teenager?
1:03.8	What was your thing?
1:04.8	Well, I grew up in a really small town in northern Minnesota, in McGregor, Minnesota.
1:09.8	The town was 400 people, I lived 20 miles outside of town.
1:13.8	And it's hard to say what I was like as a teenager because I think like a lot of teenagers,
1:19.8	I was like two people.
1:20.8	I was the person I wanted my peers to think I was.
1:24.8	And then I was the person who I knew myself to be inside.
1:28.8	And they were at odds with each other.
1:30.8	I was always a reader and ambitious and wanting to be a writer and having these big secret dreams for myself.
1:39.8	But the way I lived my life as a teenager is I've wanted people to love and accept me.
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