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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...

Yeah, some little sweet days with me.

I check my bell vibes every day.

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.

Hi Steve.

Hi Cheryl.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

Truthfully, I haven't been worrying something, and I've been trying to figure out which way I should go with this.

And in fact, Aaron and I have been worrying together. This sounds so silly, but...

We are having some boundary issues around our property and our home because we're like Lucy Goosey and all the kids from neighborhood come and play on our messy backyard that we do not take care of at all.

And it's got another point where our kids are running inside with some complaint or another, and we're realizing, hey, people just walk into our yard all the time.

And the thing we noticed in our own weird self-involveways, everybody else on the street, every other person has a fence.

And bearing in mind, good fences make good neighbors.

Like we suddenly realize, oh, we need a fence. We need a physical barrier.

But then inside of me, I had the feeling that was, wait a second, that's against my ethos of, you know, I don't want to put up fences.

Some all about taking fences down and if they're boundaries, they should be emotional and psychological, not physical.

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