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Speaker 1: my man moves mysteriously. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty

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Speaker 1: two year old woman and I've been in a relationship

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Speaker 1: with a forty five year old man for three years.

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Speaker 1: For the past two years, he's been living with me

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Speaker 1: because he needed some house repairs done around Christmas time

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Speaker 1: last year. I caught him at his own house one

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Speaker 1: Saturday when he was supposed to be visiting his parents

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina. I pulled up in his driveway and

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Speaker 1: he met me at the door, and he told me

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Speaker 1: that it was a dusty mess inside like a construction site,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't need to come in He also didn't

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Speaker 1: hug or kiss me and said he was too dirty

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Speaker 1: from working all day. I never questioned him about not

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Speaker 1: telling me he was still in town because I never

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Speaker 1: want to be a nagger like his ex wife. He

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Speaker 1: did not come home that night. The next morning, he

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Speaker 1: came home and he had shaved and he had on

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Speaker 1: dress pants. He said he went to church because his

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Speaker 1: co worker got baptized. This man threw me into a lot,

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Speaker 1: into a lot within twenty four hours, and I still

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Speaker 1: didn't nag or ask him any questions. For the next

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Speaker 1: few months, he would leave the house and wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: where he was going. I would ride by his house,

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Speaker 1: but the garage was always down, so if he was

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Speaker 1: in there, I couldn't tell. Last month, he said he

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Speaker 1: was finished with his house and he was selling it.

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Speaker 1: He said he felt like he was wearing out his

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Speaker 1: welcome with me and he might go stay with his

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Speaker 1: parents until he finds a new house. I told him

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see how he renovated his house, and

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Speaker 1: he said that there's a tenant running it now. I had.

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Speaker 1: I had a look of confusion, and he went off

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Speaker 1: on me for not believing him. So much is going

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Speaker 1: on with him, and I don't know if I should

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Speaker 1: believe him. He still says he loves me and we

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Speaker 1: still have sex, So why is he keeping me in

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Speaker 1: the dark? What's he up to? Well, there's nothing too

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Speaker 1: mysterious about him, there really isn't. It's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of lies. He's up to something something, for sure, and

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Speaker 1: everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll admit that house repairs can take a

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Speaker 1: very long time, but he's been living with you for

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Speaker 1: the last two years, so please don't believe anything he says.

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Speaker 1: He could have had a whole house built in two

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Speaker 1: years or less. Okay, anyway, all the clues are there. First,

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Speaker 1: not telling you he was still in town when he was,

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Speaker 1: then preventing you from going in the house when you

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Speaker 1: were in the driveway, not hugging, not kissing you when

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Speaker 1: he saw you, because I'm sure that's what he normally does.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think is in that house that he's

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Speaker 1: supposedly selling right now? Is it a wife in there?

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Speaker 1: Is it his kids? Think? Think Think you're worried about

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Speaker 1: not being a nag, but you're worried about the wrong things.

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Speaker 1: You still have to ask questions. You obviously can't take

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Speaker 1: his word for anything, and you're feeling it. You know

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Speaker 1: something isn't quite right. You definitely need receipts when he

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Speaker 1: tells you things. Okay, Now he's moving out because he

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Speaker 1: thinks he's worn out. He's welcome with you. No, you

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Speaker 1: didn't tell him that. He thinks that you may be

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Speaker 1: onto him, and he knows he's wrong. That's why he's leaving.

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Speaker 1: I know you think he loves you and you're confused,

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Speaker 1: but please, love has nothing to do with this relationship. Nothing.

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Speaker 1: There's really no mystery at all about him. Like I

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Speaker 1: said earlier, I think you should break up with this

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Speaker 1: loser and please stop having sex with him until he

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Speaker 1: comes clean. And that's not gonna happen. Steve, Wow, where

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Speaker 1: where are these women who write these letters? I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that you could be this gullible. I just really didn't. Man,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't almost doesn't make any sense. You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to think that women, women would rather be

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Speaker 1: keep holding onto these relationships that aren't rewarding and are

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Speaker 1: not fulfilling. To you, just so you can say you

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Speaker 1: forty two, forty five, you've been in a relationship for

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Speaker 1: with you because he needed some house repairs done two years. Okay,

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Speaker 1: around Christmas time last year, I caught him at his

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Speaker 1: me it was dusty mess inside of the the construction site.

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Speaker 1: I didn't need to come in. He also didn't hug

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Speaker 1: working all day. And that's all he had to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Go up to the house. It's too damn dirty here now,

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Speaker 1: but it's too damn dirty for you. He don't hug

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Speaker 1: or kiss you because he too dirty. That's all he

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Speaker 1: I never questioned him about telling me oh he was

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Speaker 1: still in town, because I never want to be a

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Speaker 1: nagger like his ex wife. Okay, So now you're being

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Speaker 1: you're getting played. You're actually creating the perfect scenario an

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Speaker 1: excuse that he needs to do whatever he needs to do,

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Speaker 1: and that's all you doing. So now you've created the

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Speaker 1: with it. I don't want to be a nagger like

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Speaker 1: his ex wife. Well why was she nagging? Hell, you

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Speaker 1: gotta understand something, now, most women don't nag for no reason.

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Speaker 1: They've been given a reason. That how some we women

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Speaker 1: who do. But most women that nag you about something

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Speaker 1: is because you gave him a reason too. And I

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Speaker 1: think he gave the X a reason. Yeah, hold that.

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Speaker 1: Well that Part two of Steve's response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letter subject

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Speaker 1: is my man moves mysteriously. We'll get right back into

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Speaker 1: it right after this. You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letter. My man moves mysteriously. This

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Speaker 1: lady right Hill is so gullible in this letter. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, it just makes me think that women would

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Speaker 1: rather have some relationship than a real relationship. And your

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Speaker 1: real relationship meaning that you're rewarded, you're fulfilled, you're complete,

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Speaker 1: so you deal with all these inconsistencies, and it don't

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Speaker 1: make no sense. You've been dating this man three years.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago he moved in your house because he

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Speaker 1: was doing some house repairs for two years. You went

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Speaker 1: going to see his mommy in South Carolina. You go

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Speaker 1: standing in there working. He meets you at the dough.

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Speaker 1: Don't let you in because he's saying the construction citing

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Speaker 1: his message. He don't hug and kiss you at the dough.

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Speaker 1: And he said the reason he hug and kiss you

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Speaker 1: because he'd been working in there all day. You're stupid,

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Speaker 1: so you let him tell you that. Then you said,

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Speaker 1: I never questioned him about telling me he was still

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Speaker 1: in town because I never want to be a nagger

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Speaker 1: like his ex wife. His ex wife was nagging for something. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she nagging. And now you're starting to see why I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now. Most women don't nag for no reason.

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Speaker 1: Some of them do, but the majority of women, you

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Speaker 1: give them a reason to turn into this nagging. Okay,

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Speaker 1: ready for this. He did not come home that night.

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Speaker 1: He didn't come home. He told you he was at

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Speaker 1: his mama's house in South Carolina. You go over to

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Speaker 1: his house and he at that house, he don't let

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Speaker 1: that night. The next morning he came home and said,

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Speaker 1: and he was shaved, and he had on dress pants.

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Speaker 1: He said he went to church because his co worker

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Speaker 1: got baptized. Or the best one I ever heard. That's

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Speaker 1: a good one. That was. What boy, you're proud? I

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Speaker 1: my co worker got baptized. Here's something you can't find

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Speaker 1: damn what type of research you do? What church? What coworker?

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Speaker 1: What job was he referring to? You ain't gonna be

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Speaker 1: aby researcher's best live I've ever heard. Co worker got baptized.

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Speaker 1: Then she say, this man threw me into a lot

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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. That lie right there, my

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Speaker 1: co worker got baptime. That's the best live I've ever heard.

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Speaker 1: It's so rare it has to be a lie. It.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to write a book called Creative Lies

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Speaker 1: and just give me. And so this man threw me

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Speaker 1: into a lot the last twenty four hours. I still

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Speaker 1: don't nag or ask him any question. Lady, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: now you're just gullible. You're just going along with if

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Speaker 1: along with whatever he's say for next few months. He

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Speaker 1: would lead a house. It wouldn't say where he was going.

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Speaker 1: Who can do that? Who in a relationship has to

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Speaker 1: going or when you're coming back. Now, I would ride

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Speaker 1: it all right. Now here we go. He said he

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Speaker 1: felt like he was wearing out his welcome with me,

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Speaker 1: and he might go stay with his parents until he

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Speaker 1: finds a new house. What wait a minute, you leaving me.

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Speaker 1: told him, I wanted to see how I renovated his house.

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Speaker 1: Ready for this, he said, there as a tenant written

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Speaker 1: it right now, a good life. Got to be proud

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Speaker 1: this boy right here. I love this boy right here.

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Speaker 1: So I can't let you in it because the tenant

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Speaker 1: renting it right now. I had a look of confusion,

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Speaker 1: and he went off on me for not believing him.

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Speaker 1: Remember this, anything, best defense is a good offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so when you look confused, oh, I'm lying up. Yeah, dog,

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Speaker 1: she living there and she been living there, and you're

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Speaker 1: market and sell it. If you're gonna put the market

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Speaker 1: right now? Already? So much is going on with him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I should believe him. He still

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Speaker 1: says he loves me and we still have sex. That's

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Speaker 1: cause you let him. Yeah, so why is he keeping

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Speaker 1: you want to know why he's keeping you in the

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