The Empty Chair: Part 2 — With Emily Rapp Black

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Sugars conclude a two-part series on early childhood death. In Part 2, they read letters from parents who worry that their grief may overshadow their surviving children. They are joined by the writer Emily Rapp Black, who decided to have another child after learning that her son had a fatal congenital disorder.

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.1	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:13.6	I'm Steve Alman.
0:14.8	I'm Cheryl Stray.
0:15.8	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:17.6	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:26.3	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:33.3	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:41.3	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:49.3	Hi Steve.
0:50.3	Hi Cheryl.
0:52.1	So we're back with part two of our episode.
0:54.9	We're calling the empty chair.
0:56.7	And that is about a family member who's missing, particularly a child who dies young.
1:03.1	And there's an enormous fallout about that in the whole family system.
1:07.4	Today we're going to explore this situation from the perspective of the parents.
1:13.1	If you haven't heard part one listeners, please go back and find that episode in which we
1:17.5	considered letters from siblings who were in that situation.
1:21.3	Right.
1:22.3	What happens when I read letters like this, Cheryl, maybe you feel the same way as a parent
1:27.4	is it's really almost too enormous and frightening to look at.
1:33.5	I thought first of the Raymond Carver story a small good thing.
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