My Best Friend's Wedding

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 36 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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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by.
0:09.0	So hey Cheryl.
0:10.0	Hey Steve.
0:11.0	Hey so I've got a question for you on Dear Sugar Radio.
0:14.0	Who's your best friend growing up?
0:15.0	We're going to talk about best friends.
0:17.0	We have a letter and awesome, interesting complicated letter about best friends.
0:20.0	Right.
0:21.0	But who's your best friend growing up?
0:22.0	Well I had different best friends throughout my childhood.
0:25.0	I moved around a bit and so you know I had.
0:28.0	My best friend in elementary school, actually sort of elementary into middle school.
0:32.0	And then I went off to high school and I had, you know, a number of them, different, different girls that I was close to at different times.
0:39.0	Did you ever settle on one that was kind of your big archetypal best friend?
0:43.0	You know I never was that kind of person.
0:45.0	Even to this day in my life, I've never been one to say you are my best friend.
0:49.0	I have a wonderful circle of really great friends.
0:53.0	And my girlfriends do tend to be like sisters to me.
0:57.0	And they're so important to me.
0:59.0	What about you?
1:00.0	Well I asked the question because I think there is a certain intensity.
1:05.0	There is this role, the best friend.
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