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'Beautiful Things' Revealed In Stage Adaptation Of Cheryl Strayed's Advice Column

Before she was a famous author, Strayed wrote an advice column under the pseudonym "Dear Sugar." Now, it's been adapted into an unlikely off-Broadway play starring Nia Vardalos.
Nia Vardalos stars in <em>Tiny Beautiful Things, </em>a stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's book of <em></em>"Dear Sugar" advice columns.

Cheryl Strayed — author of the bestselling memoir — was still an unknown writer when she started an anonymous advice column called "Dear Sugar." She remembers reading and writing things "that we don't normally say to people in the public space," she recalls — and

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