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Dear Sugars

Sugar For The Holidays

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars take on some of the big questions of the holiday season. How do we balance the competing demands of families? How do we act like adults when we return to our childhood homes? And, what if we aren't sure we should return home at all?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dear Sugar is supported by...

0:07.8

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

0:12.2

Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

0:17.6

I'm Cheryl Strait.

0:19.2

I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:22.6

Oh dear, so won't you please?

0:30.0

Yeah, some little sweet days with me.

0:37.0

I check my bell by every day.

0:45.0

Oh, and this sugar, using my way.

0:53.0

Hi Cheryl.

0:54.0

Hi Steve.

0:55.0

Very Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

0:57.0

All of that stuff.

0:58.0

It's like a quanza now.

0:59.0

Quanza.

1:00.0

There is also the solstice, which I would like to note given the conversation we're about

1:06.5

to have, solstice, longest night of the year, darkest day.

1:12.8

So we think of holiday time as light and cheer.

1:16.7

There's a dark side to the holidays.

1:17.7

We're going to have some fun today and talk about the light sides and then some of the

1:21.9

hard things.

1:22.9

And some of the things we're going to talk about today are a little comic and nature

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