Rewind: Make the Call

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this encore "rapid fire" episode, the Sugars give brief answers to a handful of letters. This time, they challenge each other to make the call -- one way or the other -- on the questions they're discussing, rather than offer open-ended guidance.

This episode was originally released on September 30, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:09.3	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:14.3	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:15.8	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:19.3	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
0:26.6	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:34.6	I check my bellbytes every day.
0:38.3	Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
0:47.3	Hi, Steve.
0:49.3	Hi, Cheryl.
0:50.3	How are you?
0:51.3	I'm doing great.
0:52.3	Actually, truthfully, I haven't been worrying something,
0:56.3	and I've been trying to figure out which way I should go with this. And in fact, Aaron and I have
1:00.7	been worrying together. This sounds so silly, but we're having some boundary issues around our property
1:06.2	and our home because we're like Lucy Goosey and all the kids from the neighborhood come and play
1:11.4	on our messy backyard that we do not take care of it all. And it's gotten to the point where
1:15.7	our kids are running inside with some complaint or another and we're realizing, hey, people
1:20.6	just walk into our yard all the time. And the thing we noticed in our own weird like self,
1:25.6	self-involved ways, everybody on the street every other person has a
1:29.8	fence and bearing in mind you know good fences make good neighbors or like we suddenly realize
1:36.0	oh we need a fence we need a physical barrier but then inside of me i had the feeling that was wait a
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