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Dear Sugars

Updates Part 1: Change Is A Work In Progress

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today’s update episode, we check in with some of our most memorable letter writers from previous episodes. The Sugars find out if “Struggling” was kicked out of his mother’s house, and they give “Bad Mom” a call to see if and how her views of motherhood have changed since hearing the Sugars’ advice more than two years ago.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.2

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

0:13.7

I'm Steve Alman.

0:14.9

I'm Cheryl Strait.

0:15.9

This is Dear Sugar's.

0:17.9

Oh dear song, won't you please?

0:26.3

She has 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 Cheryl.

0:50.3

Hey Steve.

0:52.3

I have to confess that I've been really vicariously following your galvanizing about the globe.

0:58.3

Yes, I'm a believer in doing the things you say you want to do, setting your intentions

1:05.0

and following through with them.

1:06.3

And for the longest time, my husband and I have been saying that we want to pull our kids

1:11.0

out of school and go travel.

1:12.9

And so we did.

1:13.9

We went to New Zealand and Nepal and Tanzania and Kenya and Qatar and Portugal.

1:20.6

And it was really fun, life changing, life changing in that deep way that travel can be.

1:26.2

It wasn't a vacation, it was a trip.

1:29.0

And it was a great way for me to end one year and begin another.

1:33.8

I know a lot of people are like, oh, I don't do resolutions and I don't really reset

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