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Strayed started writing the weekly “ Dear Sugar” advice column on the literary site The Rumpus in 2010, quietly taking over for writer Steve Almond as the glowing, all-knowing oracle who would answer reader queries with empathy and depth. In fact, it was before anyone did: She only went by Sugar. Strayed’s words are powerful, strong tools, both spoken and on the page, and her ability to say exactly the right thing at the right time may be most apparent in her pre- Wild writing, before the country knew her name. Wild - both iterations - is about many things (nature, infidelity, forgiveness, grief, heroin, finding properly fitting hiking boots), but among them, it is a love letter to words: the words Strayed’s mother said to her before she died, the words in the books Strayed carried with her on her 1,000-mile trek across the Pacific Crest Trail, and the words she finally allowed herself to believe in order to move on with her life and find peace. The last words that Reese Witherspoon utters in Wild come directly from Cheryl Strayed’s memoir (no spoilers, but trust us: You may tear up when you hear them) and will certainly send many people rushing out of the theater to buy a copy of the book.
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