Produced by the ilab at Wbur Boston.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick.
Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
I'm Steve Almond.
This is dear sugar radio.
Oh, dear song won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell rides every day oh, in the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Cheryl.
Hi, Steve.
So I want to tell you a story that I don't think you're going to like very well, because.
Well, no, I mean, you'll see what I mean.
It was just terrifying.
I went out to the west coast and visited an old friend of mine who I knew was struggling with a marriage that was failing.
And it turns out that they had separated and that they were sort of trying to adjust the family to this new normal.
He had two children, a son who's a little older than my son, and a daughter.
And one day the son essentially announced, I'm not gonna visit you anymore.
I don't wanna have any contact.
And it went even further than that.
He refused to refer to my friend as his father.