Social Butterfly In Love With A Hermit Crab

Dear Sugars

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars take a question from a young woman who takes great pleasure in socializing. Her fiance, on the other hand, dreads group settings and gets very agitated every time she wants to go to an event together. She wonders what is so unpleasant for him about spending time with her and her friends.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by
0:01.7	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:12.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.1	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:18.7	I'm Steve Almond.
0:19.8	This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.1	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
0:29.4	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:36.7	I check my bellbytes every day
0:41.3	Oh, and the sugar you see in my way
0:50.3	Would you consider yourself an extrovert?
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:56.1	Okay.
0:56.5	Absolutely.
0:57.3	Is there anything introverted about me?
0:59.6	No, and I'm the same way.
1:01.0	Here's the thing, though.
1:02.0	Only the people who really know me well know this about me.
1:05.0	I am an extrovert who loves to be alone.
1:08.2	I am a hermit.
1:10.4	Well, think about it. I mean, I am the woman who chose to go walk
1:13.3	alone on the Pacific Rest Trail for 94 days. I have many times in my life gone off to a cabin
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