Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

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Dear Sugar Letter #15/16

Dear Sugar Letter #15/16

We Are All Sugar

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Anonymous arm at The Verdi Club, February 14, 2012

Hello dear subscribers,

It was ten years ago this month that I revealed my identity as Sugar. I’d been writing the column anonymously for nearly two years and then—on Valentine’s Day in 2012—I decided to do what I’d known all along I’d do: tell everyone my name.

I am Sugar, I said on stage at the Verdi Clu…

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