Redux: The Ugly Truth

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Most of us have days when we don’t feel attractive. But in this episode, the Sugars read letters from people whose faces are at odds with conventional ideas of beauty. Writer Ariel Henley joins to talk about her own facial differences. Henley was born with Crouzon Syndrome, and underwent dozens of surgeries that changed the shape of her face.

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0:00.0	The sugars are here,
0:01.0	are here.
0:02.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. I'm Steve Allman. I'm Cheryl Strait
0:16.0	This is dear sugars Oh dear song won't you please
0:27.0	She's a little sweet days with me
0:30.0	me with me. I check my bell drives every day.
0:37.0	Oh, in the sugar.
0:38.0	Every day.
0:41.0	Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way.
0:50.0	So, Cheryl, I want to read you something.
0:52.0	Okay. I've been thinking about it.
0:54.0	This singularity of meaning, I was my face. I was ugliness.
1:00.0	When asked what was wrong with my life.
1:03.5	Everything led to it, everything receded from it,
1:07.5	my face as personal vanishing point.
1:11.5	When I tried to imagine being beautiful,
1:14.2	I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone,
1:19.8	without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.
1:26.0	Lucy Greeley.
1:27.0	That is the great Lucy Greeley from her remarkable memoir, autobiography, of a face.
1:33.9	And the reason it just leapt out at me
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