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Love Letters

Pictures Of You

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sadie Dingfelder was in the grocery store one day. She went to her husband to ask him why he was buying something new. Then she realized… this man was not her husband. Sadie was eventually diagnosed with face blindness. How did that change her perception of herself? How did it change her marriage? Sadie explains to Meredith in this funny, fascinating, and sweet episode about how we see the people we love. For giveaways, behind-the-scenes photos of guests, and extra commentary, sign up for Meredith's newsletter at boston.com/meredith (all lowercase). To leave Meredith a voicemail about any episode of Love Letters, call  401-484-0590. To send Meredith an anonymous question about relationships, go to boston.com/loveletters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.1

In 2017, Sadie was at the grocery store with her partner, Steve.

1:17.5

Sadie spaces out, wanders away as you do, and wanders back to him, just as he's throwing items into his cart.

1:19.7

He was in the junk food aisle just like tossing all of these snacks into our cart, which is

1:27.1

very unusual for him.

1:29.4

And so I plucked out a particularly egregious item.

1:33.6

It was a Safeway Select brand generic peanut butter.

1:37.8

And I held it up and I said, since when do you buy generic?

1:42.5

And Steve looked back at me and he was absolutely horrified

1:46.3

and actually looked a little scared. And I almost looked behind me to see what had my like six

1:52.9

four husband spooked. But then I realized that this guy was not my husband. He was just sort of a

2:00.6

Steve-shaped stranger who I had randomly accosted and interrogated him about his grocery shopping.

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