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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now.

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Speaker 2: Buck it up and hold on tight. We got it

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Speaker 2: for you here.

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Speaker 1: It is by letter thanking a few subjects. I have

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Speaker 1: the drummer, but I want the pastor. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: About a year ago, I left my home church to

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Speaker 1: join another church. I was dating the church's drummer and

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Speaker 1: he invited me to join. I fell in love with

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere of the church and the senior pastor was

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Speaker 1: really good. When I joined, I was asked to help

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Speaker 1: put together a praise dance team. I enlisted the help

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Speaker 1: of the associate pastor to help me. The associate pastor

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Speaker 1: is only three years older than me, and we connected

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Speaker 1: on so many levels. We went to the same college

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Speaker 1: and we have the same favorite restaurant. I was interested

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Speaker 1: in getting to know him better, but I was in

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Speaker 1: a relationship with the drummer. One Saturday, I was at

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Speaker 1: a praise dance practice with the youth, and the associate

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Speaker 1: pastor brought my lunch from my favorite restaurant. After practice,

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Speaker 1: we ate together and had a great conversation. He said

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Speaker 1: that my boyfriend, the drummer, is a ladies man and

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Speaker 1: me at ease about breaking up with the drummer so

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Speaker 1: I could pursue the associate pastor. A month after I

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Speaker 1: ended my relationship, I told the associate pastor how I

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Speaker 1: felt about him. We talked on the phone off and on,

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Speaker 1: so I figured it was okay to let him know.

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Speaker 1: He invited me to his place to talk. One thing

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Speaker 1: led to another and we were intimate. He was exceptional

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Speaker 1: in the bedroom and too freaky to be a pastor.

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Speaker 1: We talked daily for about a week afterwards, and then

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Speaker 1: he ghosted me. I confronted him church and he said

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Speaker 1: he was wrong to have sex with me. I told

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Speaker 1: him I wanted it and I want him. He said,

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Speaker 1: there's no way we can be together because my ex

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Speaker 1: we are so perfect for each other. Do I leave

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Speaker 1: the church so we can be together? Please advise ooh, slow,

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Speaker 1: you're a role lady.

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're way too gullible, way too gullible

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Speaker 1: and easy. I mean, you're listening to this, to this man,

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Speaker 1: the associate pastor bad mouth your boyfriend, the drummer, You

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Speaker 1: the associate pastor just based on what he said. All

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Speaker 1: he had to do was just backstab your boyfriend and

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Speaker 1: then bring you a plate from your favorite restaurant. And

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Speaker 1: now you want to leave this church to be with

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Speaker 1: this man, to try and get this man.

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Speaker 3: I just think you're a mess.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're all over the place. He has told

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Speaker 1: ex and you know, I think you need to listen.

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Speaker 1: I think you need to really hear what he's saying

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Speaker 1: to you. All he wanted from you, he got okay

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Speaker 1: that first night when you went over to his house,

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Speaker 1: and you're still trying to pursue him. I think it's over.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want you leave it alone.

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Speaker 4: Steve, Okay, I had the drummer, but I want to pass.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's familiar with the familiar line.

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Speaker 4: Get a drama song, yeah, literally, and mess around. He

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Speaker 4: gave you a drama too much. Well, you've been dating

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Speaker 4: the church's drama. You left your home church. Now you

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Speaker 4: left your home church for a reason for or maybe

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Speaker 4: it was somebody she was seeing at the home church.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't put it pastor, he was dating the church's drummer.

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Speaker 4: when she joined the church, they asked her to help

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Speaker 4: put together a praise dance team. Now here we go,

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Speaker 4: right here, they asked you to put together a praise

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Speaker 2: Since when is it the associate.

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Speaker 4: Pastor's position to put together to be praised dance team?

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Speaker 2: The kids? You already started some mess.

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Speaker 4: You had your eyes on the dude in the first place,

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Speaker 4: that's why you enlisted the help of him to help you.

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Speaker 2: Well, guess what.

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Speaker 4: Then, all of a sudden, there are the associated past

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Speaker 2: On so many levels.

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Speaker 4: We went to the same college, and we have the

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.

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Speaker 1: Then we're together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we waiting on sounded like a match made

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Speaker 4: and you like the same restaurant if you're in a

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Speaker 2: There but Shoney's and a dentist my favorite of damn restaurant?

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Speaker 2: Can it be?

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Speaker 4: I was interested in getting to know him better, but

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Speaker 2: So you was at the praise dance practice.

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Speaker 4: The pastor brought you some lunch from your favorite restaurant.

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Speaker 2: After practice, we ate together.

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Speaker 4: You ain't never sit down on the bench somewhere and

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Speaker 2: Up, isn't it slinging mud? Now?

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Speaker 4: All of a sudden that put me at ease about

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Speaker 2: So I ain't surprised at none of that.

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Speaker 4: What you're going to be surprised about is when we

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Speaker 4: come back.

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Speaker 2: What I have to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, hold on to that thought, Steve. We

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Speaker 1: will definitely come back at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: To get back into this letter and get part two

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Speaker 1: of Steve's response, I had the drummer, but I want

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Speaker 1: the pastor. We'll get back into it, right, so she did.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Hardy Morning show. All right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's strawberry letter. I had the drummer, but

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Speaker 1: I want the pastor?

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Speaker 4: Is the subjects lady that left her home church in

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Speaker 4: pursuit of the drummer invited her to come to the church.

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Speaker 4: She fell in love with him, with the atmosphere, so

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Speaker 2: Together praise dance team?

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Speaker 4: They could have got anybody for that. There ain't no

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Speaker 2: Who want to try out? All right?

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Speaker 4: So anyway, when you found out you was gonna pick

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Speaker 2: To help you pick the The dance team. All right.

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Speaker 4: He's only three years older than me, and we connected

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Speaker 4: all it takes, that was ladies. There's hope for everybody.

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Speaker 4: Now find to somebody like the same food you like,

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Speaker 4: and the dean do is here comes the wedding.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 4: One Saturday, he was at the praise dance practice. You

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Speaker 4: Then you said right away, well that put me in.

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Speaker 4: He is about breaking up with the drummer. So I

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Speaker 4: could pursue the associate pastor. Whoo you rolled it. You

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Speaker 4: just left your other church. Probably what some mess going

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Speaker 2: Pastor, lady, He ain't always been the pastor.

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Speaker 3: Past see, yeah, he was something.

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Speaker 4: Before the past. So why don't know why people be

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Speaker 2: So he then obviously turned you out.

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Speaker 4: We talked daily for about a week afterwards, and then

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Speaker 4: you confronted him at church. Then he told you some

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Speaker 2: I told him I wanted it and a him.

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Speaker 4: He says, ain't no way we can be together because

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Speaker 4: man and we are so perfect for each other. Do

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Speaker 4: of what you're gonna leave another church? So what you

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Speaker 2: Even won't you?

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Speaker 4: He doesn't because I don't care If your ex boyfriend

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Speaker 4: You have to face, so many things. Have to find

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Speaker 4: his ghost people too, but he ghosted you with a scripture.

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Speaker 4: I was wrong to have sex with you? Well he was?

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Speaker 4: What was he wrong when he was having sex with you?

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Speaker 1: No, that didn't up.

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Speaker 4: Or he just wrong for having half sex with you.

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Speaker 1: See all it took was him to say that is

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Speaker 2: Out that's who she wanted in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so now that's why she asked an associate pastor

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Speaker 2: Her in picking the praise dance team. Who need help

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Speaker 2: Who gets cut from the praise dance team? Because you

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Speaker 4: You can't cut nobody from the praise dance team. If

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Speaker 2: They got something for you.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes your job is just to throw the little skinny

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Speaker 2: That's your job. We got job for big people on

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Speaker 4: Don't want you. You got played and it don't matter

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Speaker 4: stay with you. If you was perfect for him, he'd

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Speaker 4: have you.

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Speaker 1: She's going to church for the wrong man.

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Speaker 2: You going to church for the wrong reasons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you a church for the drummer and the pastor,

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Speaker 4: for the Lord and the atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: Get a drummer.

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