The Wounded Child Within
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars are taking this week off, to focus on answering new letters. We'll be back next week, but in the meantime, we revisit this conversation about the traumas of our past and their role in our present.
Transcript
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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 |
| 0:42.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your |
| 0:46.2 | 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. Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:18.0 | Dear sugars, |
| 1:20.0 | I am 68 years old, old enough to have garnered the wisdom that comes with the years and |
| 1:27.6 | young enough at heart anyway to still fall in love. |
| 1:31.3 | My partner and I were together eight years and finally called it quits. We were compatible, |
| 1:36.0 | mutually attracted to each other, both divorced from long-term marriages, both with adult children, |
| 1:41.6 | and both looking for someone to spend the rest of our lives with. both with |
| 1:44.3 | children and both looking for someone to spend the rest of our lives with. |
| 1:44.7 | Everything lined up except for one thing, his drinking. |
| 1:48.7 | I worked it from every angle and finally decided I couldn't do it anymore. The split was mutual, but I think |
| 1:55.0 | we both let go of something that in our hearts we wanted to hold on to. Now I'm wondering |
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