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Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR, Boston.

Thank you. 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 Alman.

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

This is Dear Sugars.

Oh, dear song, won't you please?

Share some little sweet days with me.

I check my heart my heart. Hi, some bitter of sweet days with me. Hi, Steve. Hi, Cheryl. So we... you've seen my way.

Hi, Steve.

Hi, Cheryl.

So here we are, part two of our updates episodes.

If you didn't listen last week, what we're doing in these two parts is looking back at some of the letters we've answered on past episodes and following up with those people to see what happened next. I know so many people, just like Steve and I, we are always curious when we

give that advice, what changes are going to be made or resisted, what advice is going to be taken

or ignored. And we're going to delve more deeply into that today on this episode.

Now, one of the things that we've introduced in this past year is we started a column back in July,

the sweet spot. It runs in the New York Times, the actual paper every Thursday in the style section,

and it can be found online every Tuesday, the Tuesday

before it actually appears in the newspaper. And we try to really choose letters that in some

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