Encore: The Price Of Our Dreams

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this favorite episode from the archives, the Sugars, along with fiction writer George Saunders, field letters from people who are chasing their creative dreams but frightened by the practical and financial risks that come with that pursuit. This episode was originally released on August 5th, 2017.

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0:00.0	WVR Podcasts, Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:42.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:56.0	Hi Steve.
0:57.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:58.0	I love this letter and I love the person who wrote it.
1:01.0	Dear sugars, I'm a 29 year old mother of five amazing souls.
1:05.0	I started my mom journey at 16.
1:07.0	When I found out I was pregnant, I took myself out of high school and got my GED.
1:12.0	I started beauty school at 17 and finished at 18.
1:15.0	By 21, I'd moved out of my parents' house, had another baby gotten married and bought a house.
1:21.0	Life has been a beautiful chaos with my wonderful husband.
1:24.0	I stopped working at a salon before baby number five was born.
1:28.0	My plan was to go back to work.
1:30.0	Once she started school in two years, but now I want to go to college.
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