Summary
The Sugars celebrate Valentine's Day by fielding questions from a married woman whose long-dormant passions have been reignited by an old high-school boyfriend, and from a young woman struggling with whether to leave behind her cheating, closeted girlfriend.
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| 0:00.0 | Must remember, do not forget. |
| 0:07.0 | Remind me to bring photo ID. |
| 0:11.0 | Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:19.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. |
| 0:26.8 | UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:30.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:41.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your |
| 0:46.2 | ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:59.0 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 1:05.0 | I check my bell-bives every day. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:29.0 | So Cheryl, it is Valentine's Day and I love that we get a chance to talk about love. Because we're many things, but also we're kind of big sucker romantics. I want to read just a brief |
| 1:35.5 | passage from this novel stoner which I adore by the writer John Williams and I |
| 1:39.8 | think it's the best definition that I found of what love is. In his extreme youth, Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which if one were lucky one might find access. |
| 1:53.6 | In his maturity, he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, |
| 1:58.4 | toward which one ought to gaze in an amused disbelief, |
| 2:01.8 | a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. |
| 2:06.2 | Now in his middle age, he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion. he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was |
| 2:17.4 | invented and modified moment by moment and day by day by the will and the intelligence and the heart. |
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