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Dear Sugar Letter #3

Dear Sugar Letter #3

The Gigantically Terrifying Life That Belongs Only To You

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Dear Sugar,

I’m a 34-year-old gay man with a good life. Great friends and family, two dogs I love (and spoil) like they’re my children, a job at a nonprofit organization that gives me a sense of contributing to the betterment of our world. What I don’t have is a partner and I know why: I’m terrified of real intimacy. I…

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