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Dear Sugars

Updates Part 2: Step Into Your Spotlight

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our updates series, we find out what happened to two letter writers who let self-image sabotage their love lives. The Sugars find out if “Scared to Choose Wrong” married her fiancé, and they give “Aspiring Warrior for Love” a call to see how he’s changed since hearing the Sugars’ advice more than a year 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

Yeah, some little sweet days with me.

0:33.3

I check my bell by every day.

0:41.3

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.

0:49.3

Hi Steve.

0:50.3

Hi Cheryl.

0:52.3

So we here we are part two of our updates episodes.

0:55.9

If you didn't listen last week, what we're doing in these two parts is looking back at some

1:01.1

of the letters we've answered on past episodes and following up with those people to see

1:07.7

what happened next.

1:08.7

I know so many people just like Steve and I, we are always curious when we give that advice.

1:13.7

What changes are going to be made or resisted.

1:17.4

What advice is going to be taken or ignored.

1:19.2

And we're going to delve more deeply into that today on this episode.

1:23.5

Now one of the things that we've introduced in this past year, as we started to call

1:27.9

them back in July, the sweet spot, it runs in the New York Times, the actual paper every

1:35.6

Thursday in the style section and it can be found online every Tuesday, the Tuesday

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