My Best Friend's Wedding

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We revisit an episode about friendship with one of our most beloved Sugar guests — the writer Ann Patchett. In this episode, the Sugars take a question from a young woman whose best friend since childhood is about to get married to a man she's known for only six months. The two friends are very different, and the letter writer worries that her impulsive, drama-prone friend is rushing into another bad situation.

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0:32.9	So hey, Cheryl.
0:40.2	Hey, Steve.
0:41.0	Hey, so I've got a question for you on Dear Sugar Radio.
0:44.0	Who's your best friend growing up?
0:45.3	We're going to talk about best friends.
0:46.9	We have a letter, an awesome, interesting, complicated letter about best friends.
0:50.4	Right.
0:50.8	But who was your best friend growing up?
0:52.5	Well, I had different best friends throughout my
0:54.2	childhood. I moved around a bit. And so, you know, I had my best friend in elementary school,
1:00.1	actually sort of elementary into middle school. And then I went off to high school and I had,
1:05.1	you know, a number of them, different girls that I was close to at different times. Did you ever
1:09.7	settle on one that was kind of your big archetypal best friend?
1:14.1	You know, I never was that kind of person.
1:15.2	Even to this day in my life, I've never been one to say, you are my best friend.
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