Redux: Rapid Fire Letters

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released July 29th, 2017.

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In a heated moment, a mother reveals a dark chapter from her childhood to her daughter, then immediately regrets it. What now? In this week’s episode, the Sugars tackle this and several other questions, including how to handle a brother-in-law who treats your vacation as his own free childcare; what to do when your best friend’s husband asks you to lie; and why we sometimes recoil at very public displays of grief.

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0:00.0	Spice Lovers. Are you ready to fill the fire this winter? Heat up the coldest month for the year with new limited edition Extra Flaming Hot Walkers. Bringing the heat to Britain's most love Chris brand. Don't be a denier. Own the fire. Try new extra flaming hot walkers and try the rest of our range
0:22.7	with extra flaming hot Doritos,
0:24.7	Walker's Max and What's It's Crunchy.
0:30.4	WBURR Podcasts,
0:32.7	Boston.
0:37.1	Music The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:49.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:52.7	I'm Steve Alman.
0:53.8	I'm Cheryl Stray.
0:55.0	This is Dear Sugars.
0:58.2	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
1:05.4	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:17.6	I check my bellbyes every day.
1:26.6	Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
1:29.2	Hello, Cheryl.
1:30.4	Hi, Steve.
1:32.0	It is time.
1:32.6	It is time.
1:34.7	We always love rapid fire.
1:38.5	I do, because we get to weigh in on many different things.
1:38.9	Yes.
1:39.7	Very quickly.
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