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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 Strait.

I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

Oh dear, don't you please...

She has some little sweet days with me.

I check my bell by every day.

Oh, and this sugar, using my way.

Hi Steve.

Hello Cheryl.

So today we're going to talk about a subject that's dear to my heart.

Motherhood, being a mother.

One of the things that I experienced so enormously when I became a mom was really just this

shocking amount of love.

You always hear about this mother's love and how powerful it is.

And when I experienced it myself, it absolutely blew me away.

If you asked me the single person who maybe changed my life the most,

I would probably have to say my firstborn, my firstborn child, Carver,

because I really did change in very essential ways when I went from being a person who wasn't a mother

to becoming a person who wasn't a mother.

I just, something deep in me shifted when he was born.

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