The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Steve Alman.

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

This is Dear Sugar's.

Oh dear song, won't you please?

Yeah, some little sweet days will be.

I check my bell vibes every day.

Oh, and this sugar, using my way.

Hi Steve.

Hi Cheryl.

You know, we've been thinking so much about what it means to say goodbye

and let go and move on.

Yes we have.

You know, because we're moving on from our own podcast, which is a sad thing

and it involves a lot of letting go to the good times we had, the wonderful experience we had with each other,

but also with our listeners.

So this really kind of came into our minds when we were thinking about some of the themes and topics we wanted to explore.

Right.

In these final episodes as we moved toward the end of our show, and we thought we'd do this two part moving on thing.

Yeah.

And in the short term, I can say just in my own experience, and most of the people I know, people stay in relationships, people stay in some way in an active discourse with their grief longer than they naturally should they hold on because it is so tremendously difficult to let go.

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