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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letter, all right. Subject. I never

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Speaker 1: should have asked him to fix her sink. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: After eighteen years of knowing my fiance, she cut the fool.

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Speaker 1: I've been divorced for twenty one years and my four

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Speaker 1: children are all grown. She's divorced too, so there was

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Speaker 1: never any pressure to get remarried. But I proposed to her.

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Speaker 1: But I proposed recently because she's a perfect woman in

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Speaker 1: every way. She was getting her house ready to be

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Speaker 1: sold and move in with me. Her kitchen sink linked

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Speaker 1: and the disposer didn't work, so I asked my oldest

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Speaker 1: son to take a look at it. He works as

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Speaker 1: a handyman and can fix anything. He went over to

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Speaker 1: my fiance's house about two weeks ago, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: have time to meet him over there because she lives

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes away from me. When he fixed it, he

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Speaker 1: called me to let him He called to let me know.

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Speaker 1: Then I called my fiance to check in to see

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Speaker 1: if she was pleased with his work. She said she

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Speaker 1: to come over that evening like she normally would, but

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Speaker 1: she said she wasn't feeling well and didn't want to

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Speaker 1: expose me to anything. I thought about COVID nineteen, so

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Speaker 1: I told her to get some rest. A few days

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Speaker 1: passed and I still had not seen her. I called

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Speaker 1: daily and asked if she needed anything, but she kept

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Speaker 1: the calls brief. Finally, I decided to ride over to

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Speaker 1: her house and check up on her. The whole ride

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Speaker 1: over there, I felt like something wasn't right. I got

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Speaker 1: to her house and saw my son's work truck in

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Speaker 1: front of her neighbor's house. I knocked on her side door,

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Speaker 1: I rang her front door bell, and I called her

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Speaker 1: home phone and cell phone. She didn't answer any of them.

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Speaker 1: My son's phone went straight to voicemail. That was a

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Speaker 1: week ago, and I haven't heard from either of them,

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Speaker 1: either one of them. What could she see in this

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Speaker 1: younger man, although he looks just like me? How can

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Speaker 1: I get closure? Please advise closure? That's what you think

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Speaker 1: you need right now? Closure? All right? I don't understand

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Speaker 1: the relationship between you and your son. I gotta put

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Speaker 1: that out there. But you are so right. I will

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Speaker 1: agree with you. You should have never let your son

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Speaker 1: go over there. And I really think you're wrong about

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Speaker 1: why he ended up getting with her. I think it's

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Speaker 1: those eighteen years. Eighteen years, that's a long time she's

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Speaker 1: been waiting and waiting and waiting on something to happen. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you said you proposed recently, but

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Speaker 1: sounds like it was too much, too little, too late.

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Speaker 1: Like the song goes, She's like, whatever, now whatever. You

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Speaker 1: may not have felt pressure to get married, but obviously

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Speaker 1: So for eighteen years, she was there when they were

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Speaker 1: coming up, so she knew who it was. She knew

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long it took for them to

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Speaker 1: was terrible. But all you're talking about is you want closure.

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Speaker 1: It's way deeper than that your son. Wow, Steve, question,

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Speaker 1: here's the letter in a nutshell. I haven't heard from

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Speaker 1: either one of them. It's been a week. What could

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Speaker 1: she see in this younger man although he looks just

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Speaker 1: like me, How can I get close? Well, let me

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Speaker 1: start this letter off by saying, what did she see

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Speaker 1: in this younger man or younger you that's all it is.

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Speaker 1: All right, all this closing you want, Yeah, I ain't

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Speaker 1: got no closure for you. Got some other questions you

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Speaker 1: need to be asking. We'll discuss the letter when I

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Speaker 1: come back. All right, Steve, listen, We'll have part two

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Speaker 1: of Steve's response coming up. You heard him. It'll be

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Speaker 1: at twenty three minutes after the hour. Subject of today's

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Speaker 1: strawberry Letter, I never should have asked him to fix

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Speaker 1: her sink. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's strawberry letters. Subject I never should have

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Speaker 1: asked him to fix her sink. Wow, well, ain't gotta

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Speaker 1: recap it. Here's the deal. We got an old dude.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole letter. Let's just start from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Never should ask him to fix us sing eighteen years

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Speaker 1: of knowing my fiance. She cut the food, cut the food,

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Speaker 1: so that means this dude is old. Nobody uses to

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Speaker 1: turn cut the food fold. She cut the food. And

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Speaker 1: you're down south some damn where, or you're from down south.

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Speaker 1: You've been divorced twenty one years. That long time to

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Speaker 1: do anything, married anything. You've been divorced twenty one years.

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Speaker 1: Your four kids are grown. She's divorced too, so there's

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Speaker 1: never any pressure to get married. I proposed recently because

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Speaker 1: she's the perfect woman everything. So she was getting ready

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Speaker 1: house to be sold so she could move in with you.

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Speaker 1: Kitchen sink leaked. Kitchen sink leaked, and the disposal didn't work,

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Speaker 1: so I asked my oldest son to take a look

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Speaker 1: at it. He works as a handyman and can fix anything.

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Speaker 1: He went over to my fiance's house about two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: You ain't had time to meet him over there because

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Speaker 1: she lived thirty minutes away. When he fixed it, he

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Speaker 1: called me to let me know, Dad, I took care

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Speaker 1: of it. Then I called my Beyonce to check in

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Speaker 1: and see if she was pleased with his work. She

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Speaker 1: says she was napping and would call me later. Now

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Speaker 1: let me tell you how pleased she was with the work.

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Speaker 1: She gotta take a damn now. I expected her to

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Speaker 1: come over that evening like she normally would. She said

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Speaker 1: she wasn't feeling well. Didn't want to expose you to

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Speaker 1: anything you thought about COVID nineteen, So you totally get

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Speaker 1: some rest. Days passed. Still ain't seen her call it

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Speaker 1: every day you need anything. Kept the car's brief final.

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Speaker 1: I decided to ride over the house and check on her.

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Speaker 1: Now you got thirty minutes now, because the whole ride

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Speaker 1: over there, I felt like something wasn't right. I got

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Speaker 1: to her house, and I'll be damned. I saw my

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Speaker 1: knocked on her side though, I rang her front door bell.

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Speaker 1: I knocked on her front door. I looked through the window.

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Speaker 1: I called her home phone. That's how I know she

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Speaker 1: all old, because she got a house phone. That's the

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Speaker 1: other way you know she old, and none of my

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Speaker 1: kids got house phones. They don't even know what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. I call a house phone and sell phone.

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Speaker 1: She didn't answer any of them, and your son's phone

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Speaker 1: went straight divoice. Ma'am. That was a week ago, and

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Speaker 1: I ain't heard from either one of them. Wow, do

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Speaker 1: what could she see in this younger man? Although he

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Speaker 1: looks just like me? How can I get closure? Sir?

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Speaker 1: You won't closure, But I think a couple of things

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Speaker 1: has been closed here, and one of them is more

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Speaker 1: deadly than the other one. First of all, I think

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Speaker 1: serious trouble because if he did this to his dad,

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Speaker 1: have you and your son ever been close? Y'all? Cool? Well,

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Speaker 1: you'd ask for your kids to have you been divorced

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Speaker 1: twenty one and where you're strange from the kids? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what something, man? Because for a son to do that

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Speaker 1: a really understanding that, and you won't closure. You already

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Speaker 1: know what it is. His work truck over there, but

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Speaker 1: you send him over there to fix the saint. In

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Speaker 1: order to fix the sint. You got to do pipe work.

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Speaker 1: Oh now, obviously your son good and handy man, and

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Speaker 1: he's doing good pipe work. Because she over that sleep.

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Speaker 1: She can't even hard to talk on the phone no more.

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Speaker 1: She gotta keep it brief. She had a breath. Ain't

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Speaker 1: he been over there for two damn weeks? He didn't

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Speaker 1: he ain't he moved the truck. He'd been over that

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Speaker 1: two weeks. They're over there, just all probably getting the

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Speaker 1: there and get that wash to fixed down any way,

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Speaker 1: then had to get them pipes running through that kitchen,

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Speaker 1: had to straighten that out. Then that hall bathroom sink

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Speaker 1: need to read piping. And then y'all probably did to

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Speaker 1: meet me and tore down the shower curtains. So it's

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Speaker 1: just all popping off at your house. Man. Sorry, dog,

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Speaker 1: ain't no closing for you, man. Your relationship with everybody

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to have relationship with it, it's about over, man.

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Speaker 1: Seemed like Scatto gonna get somebody else. She ain't go on.

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Speaker 1: No sleeping on your son, man, that's crazy, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It really is cold. How to turn his truck about

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Speaker 1: in front of me. He's a handy man, he can

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Speaker 1: fix anything. Probably can't kick his ass, so you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to do something to that truck, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Sports Talk with Junior right after this. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: this Dave Harvey Morning Show