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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.
Is dear sugars.
Oh dear song, won't.
You please.
Share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day.
Oh, and the sugar you send my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So we're back with part two of our episode we're calling the empty chair, and that is about a family member who's missing, particularly a child who dies young.
And there's an enormous fallout about that in the whole family system.
Today we're going to explore this situation from the perspective of the parents.
If you haven't heard part one, listeners, please go back and find that episode in which we considered letters from siblings who were in that situation.
Right.
What happens when I read letters like this, Cheryl, and maybe you feel the same way as a parent, is it's really almost too enormous and frightening to look at.
I thought first of the Raymond Carver story, a small, good thing, one of.