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The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear.
So won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell eyes every day oh, and the sugar you see in 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 were going to handle the experience of being a step child.
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.