Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.

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

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Steve Olman.

I'm Cheryl Strait.

This is Dear Sugar's.

Oh dear song won't you please?

Share some little sweet days with me.

I check my bell by every day.

Oh and this sugar you see in my way.

Hi Cheryl.

Hi Steve.

You know Cheryl there are many reasons that I love doing the show.

One of the reasons is because we come from very different places

and it's rare and true gift when we become good friends with somebody

who really is lived a different life, different story.

And I think about this because when we conceived of this episode

we really were thinking about family.

And I realized my conception of family is very simplistic and very basic and intuitive.

It's kind of the generic American post World War II version of family.

It's a nuclear family mom to add brothers, maybe there's some crazy cousins.

But in fact as we've gotten to know one another on the air and off,

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