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Dear Sugars

The Two Stories We Tell

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars explore the two stories we tell — the story of how we want to be seen, the public self, and the story of who we really are inside, the private self. They field questions from a feminist struggling to reconcile her stories in the wake of an emotionally abusive relationship, and from a twenty-something virgin who has spent her life letting her family write her story.

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0:00.0

Must remember, do not forget.

0:07.0

Remind me to bring photo ID.

0:11.0

Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote.

0:17.0

All right, love.

0:19.0

However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.

0:24.1

Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.

0:29.2

Dear Sugar is supported by

0:41.0

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

0:46.2

Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:51.6

Oh dear song, won't you please?

0:59.0

Share some little sweet days with me.

1:05.0

I check my bell-bives every day.

1:15.0

Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way.

1:21.0

So Cheryl, welcome back I guess welcome back to both of us. Welcome back to you Steve. It's the new year

1:28.1

happy new year thank you and to you also but more intriguingly for me like what has your life been like I

1:36.8

myself have not had a huge movie debut that has happened in my life I have had changed many diapers and so forth, but what has it been like the deluge of having a wild come out and all that, the blizzard around it?

1:51.0

It's really truly, I think, the most surreal experience of my life.

1:56.2

It's one thing to have your book made into a movie,

1:58.6

which I think is itself a pretty extraordinary experience,

2:01.8

but that book is about a real experience you know that I lived through it's about me

2:06.9

Reese Witherspoons is me on the screen and I've had you know so many different emotions about the experience it's delightful

2:16.0

it's glorious it's exciting it's also scary when I wrote the book as you know're a writer, you put yourself in a really vulnerable

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