Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

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Dear Sugar Letter #26

Dear Sugar Letter #26

Three Big Love Principles (and four updates)

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Dear Sugar,

Exactly one year ago I wrote you a letter and, much to my surprise, you wrote me back a week later in your column. At the time I was feeling psychologically trapped by my heartbreak over my ex-husband, who’d left me for another woman three years before. I asked you for advice about how to let go of him and move o…

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