Dear sugar is supported by.
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 son, won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day.
Oh, in the sugar you see, in my way.
We're answering letters from teenagers today, talking about what it means to be a teenager, what it meant for us back in the day, what it means for kids today.
What was Cheryl strayed like as a teenager?
What was your thing?
Well, I grew up in a really small town in rural northern Minnesota, in McGregor, Minnesota.
The town was 400 people.
I lived 20 miles outside of town.
And it's hard to say what I was like as a teenager because I think, like a lot of teenagers, I was like two people.
I was the person I wanted my peers to think I was, and then I was the person who I knew myself to be inside, and they were at odds with each other.
I was always a reader and ambitious and wanting to be a writer and having these big, secret dreams for myself.
But the way I lived my life as a teenager is I wanted people to love and accept me.
And so even I grew up poor, didn't have, like, the cool clothes and things.