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I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear so won't you come please share some little sweetness with me I check my bell eyes every day oh, and the sugar you sing my way.
Hi, Cheryl.
Hi, Steve.
Well, today we are going to talk about stepchildren.
And this is because for long time listeners, you know, we've talked about step parents in a couple of different episodes.
And each time our letter writers.
Thank you.
Basically filled our inbox with questions about whether we're going to handle the experience of being a stepchild.
Right.
It's a fraught relationship.
And I think that it's one of those really rare times that we're forced to be very intimate with people sometimes that we don't even like, we don't even know.
You know, suddenly you look up and your mom or dad has married somebody else.
And that can be beautiful or it can be complicated.
One thing that does get, I think, overlooked when we talk about step parents, and especially we've heard on our stepmothers episode, you know, we've got the evil stepmother in every fairy tale, and then we've got this sort of shady, predatory stepfather.