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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 Strait. This is Dear Sugars.

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. Hi, Steve. Hi, Cheryl. Here we are beginning a new season

of Dear Sugars. I'm very excited. We have so many interesting things ahead. Yeah, we are

super, super psyched and just on a personal note, super psyched to see my partner again.

My sentiments exactly. One of my favorite poems of all time by Realca is Archaic Torsou

of Apollo. It culminates in this line that has come into my mind countless times throughout

my life. It's this. You must change your life. It's such a simple statement. It reads

to me like a command that sort of echoes in my mind. At really moments when I finally

realize things aren't going the way they should be. People who have read my work especially

wild know that I had that moment of truth in my 20s. I distinctly remember that feeling.

Okay, here I am at the bottom. Hello, bottom. You must change your life. That is the title

of today's show. Why don't we dive in and read the first letter? Dear Sugars, I'm a 21-year-old

girl from England and I'm lost. I feel like I've been wandering aimlessly through life

since I was six. This was when I had to grow up. My parents divorced when I was two, just

old enough to start feeling the implications. Both my parents remarried and started having

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