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Speaker 2: Here, right now. Look, I love and hold on tight.

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Speaker 2: We got it. Fool you. Here it is Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject to my fiance. Okay, my fiance

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Speaker 1: and his girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: Did you write this?

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm engaged to a man that used

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Speaker 1: to date one of my friends. Their history runs deep

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Speaker 1: and he's still tied to her in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: They have property together and they have a son together.

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Speaker 1: He always told me that he couldn't see himself marrying her,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to be with me. I would always

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Speaker 1: her to me because I have been her friend for

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Speaker 1: twenty years. But he and I started dating while he

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Speaker 1: very distant. She said he was only with her for

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Speaker 1: their son, and I would tell her that she should

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Speaker 1: let him go because it's clear. It's clear he doesn't

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Speaker 1: want her. She would say that it's not that simple.

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Speaker 1: He says the same thing. He said he's not having

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Speaker 1: at the house for his son. He and I dated

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Speaker 1: for a year before he asked me to marry him.

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Speaker 1: I have met his entire family and they love me.

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Speaker 1: He spends the night at my house often, and we

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Speaker 1: are making plans to start over in a new city

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Speaker 1: after we get married. He is still waiting for the

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Speaker 1: right time to tell his girlfriend that he's with me.

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Speaker 1: I told him that we should tell her as a couple,

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Speaker 1: and we should do it after the holidays. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: isn't that nice? I feel like she will end up

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Speaker 1: hating me, but she can't because I didn't take her man.

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Speaker 1: He pursued me. My pastor told me that there are

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Speaker 1: no rules when two soul mates meet. My family thinks

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Speaker 1: I'm a bad person for being with him, and they

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Speaker 1: said our relationship won't last. Why wouldn't it last? Do

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Speaker 1: you think i'd be making a big mistake if I

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Speaker 1: stay with this man. Well, you're really clueless, huh. Don't

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Speaker 1: you know that you've crossed the line. You've been her

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Speaker 1: because he pursued you and you didn't chase him, that

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Speaker 1: makes it all right for you guys to be together. No,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. You may not have hijacked her man or

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Speaker 1: taken him from her, as you say, but when he

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Speaker 1: not say that's my friend. You welcomed him with open arms,

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Speaker 1: you didn't turn him down. And then now you're engaged.

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Speaker 1: A friend wouldn't do that, and you still haven't told her,

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Speaker 1: and you think it's okay to tell her as a couple.

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Speaker 1: This is so foul and just so wrong. You take

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Speaker 1: no accountability for what has happened. You have betrayed your friend.

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Speaker 1: He's playing you. It's called having his cake and eating

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Speaker 1: it too. And please know that there will never be

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Speaker 1: a right time to tell this girl this.

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Speaker 2: Never.

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Speaker 1: She's not gonna take this well, and she probably will

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Speaker 1: whoop your behind. Okay, I hope that answers your question

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Speaker 1: about this being a big mistake. If you stay with

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Speaker 1: it will be a big mistake.

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Speaker 2: Steve, Well, this is my favorite thing today so far.

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Speaker 2: You know, well, good tyd of dealing with the election,

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Speaker 2: min wod deal with some bs. Ain't nothing like some

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Speaker 2: good old bs for you. Here's a fiance say he

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Speaker 2: is a Well, the subject is my fiance and his girlfriend. Now,

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Speaker 2: this lady is engaged to a man that used to

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Speaker 2: pretty much can't get no more connected than that. Y'all

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Speaker 2: Or damn it, what else is bigger than that? What

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Speaker 2: for twenty years. No, you ain't what is you talking about?

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Speaker 2: You've been her friend for twenty years. Where you get

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Speaker 2: that from? If you was her friend, we don't have

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Speaker 2: I told him not to say nothing to me because

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Speaker 2: twenty years. The letter would have been over if you

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Speaker 2: he was still with her. What Wait a minute, Hold lady,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute. I'll help me, help me. I'll come

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Speaker 2: from the struggling. But you know I was trying to

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Speaker 1: You told him he.

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Speaker 2: Was crossing the line by talking about her to you,

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Speaker 2: because y'all have been friends for twenty years. Next line,

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Speaker 2: But he and I started dating while he was still

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Speaker 2: with her. Man, you a good ass friend, man, lady,

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Speaker 2: You man, man, that's what That's what friends are for.

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Speaker 2: Who keep shying, keep smiling? Now when you can always

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Speaker 2: count on me? Yeah, you can count on me. So

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Speaker 2: every time he come over here to talk about you

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Speaker 2: because one time we was cutting and he cut me.

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Speaker 2: He did, all right?

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Speaker 1: Hang on see, we'll have part two.

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Speaker 2: Once he cut me, I was just we'll.

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Speaker 1: Have part two of your response, showing up twenty three

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Speaker 1: minutes after today's Strawberry letter subject my fiance and his girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening

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Speaker 1: Morning show, All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's

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Speaker 1: Strawberry letter because it put a smile on your face.

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Speaker 2: Go yeah, because you know I need some bs right

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Speaker 2: now because you know the electioning God on my damn nerves.

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Speaker 2: You know, this story is my fiance and his girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: His ladies engaged to a man that used to they

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Speaker 2: have She say, they got history in a lot of

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Speaker 2: ways because they got property together, and they got a

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Speaker 2: a property somewhere to stay and you got a baby together. Heah, y'all,

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Speaker 2: y'all tied together. That pretty much. That's what a family is,

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Speaker 2: people that have kids together and stay together in the

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Speaker 2: twenty years. Yeah, that's that should have ended the letter,

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Speaker 2: But the next line says, but he and I started

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Speaker 2: dating while he was still with her. Now here go

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Speaker 2: You ain't understand that. Yeah, he distant, hard deck like

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Speaker 2: he loved you. When y'all sitting around together watching TV

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Speaker 2: all y'all and he he just over there, just over there,

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Speaker 2: just getting actually free. You couldn't hurt it, you know,

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Speaker 2: they just they just ripping it. I would tell her

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Speaker 2: because it's clear that he don't want to be with you.

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Speaker 2: She would say that, and she would say, it's just

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Speaker 2: not that simple, And you was thinking, well, hell, how

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Speaker 2: much more simple can it be? I know you need

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Speaker 2: to leave with and I know why he distant because

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Speaker 2: but he's staying at the house for his son, who

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Speaker 2: ain't at the line? How many times have you heard

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Speaker 2: He and I dated for a year before he asked

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Speaker 2: they love me. He spends the night in my house often,

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Speaker 2: and we mak him plans to start over in the

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Speaker 2: new city. Well that's good. You know you got to

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Speaker 2: get out that city. You already know why you got

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Speaker 2: He stay, You ain't gonna get a night's sleep after

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Speaker 2: a minute, he done proposed to you, and he ain't

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Speaker 2: It ain't none right, it ain't none. See he did

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Speaker 2: he did let me tell you something. He didn't fed

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Speaker 2: That's the funniest line in that of me. Let's not

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Speaker 2: mess up Christmas. Now, wait a minute, so January, after

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Speaker 2: as a couple as she gonna stab both of y'all. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now. You I don't know

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Speaker 2: how you think it's gonna go. I feel like will

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Speaker 2: is this was disturbing. I feel like she will end

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Speaker 2: up hating me, but she can't because I didn't take her.

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Speaker 2: Man what he pursued me. Really, you think I've never

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Speaker 2: heard a woman use that one before? So when you

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Speaker 2: do all this, can you film this and send this

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Speaker 2: in as a part too to this draw my pastor

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Speaker 2: told me that there are no rules when two soul

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Speaker 2: change churches. Your pastor told you there are no rules

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Speaker 2: when two soul makes me. Have you ever heard that before?

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Speaker 2: Surely have you ever heard that? Have you ever heard that?

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Speaker 1: Like war?

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Speaker 2: All is fair and love and war? Our pastor told

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Speaker 2: me there are no rules when two soul mats meet.

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Speaker 2: You ever heard that?

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Speaker 2: No rules? No? Yeah, junior, you ever heard that. I've

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Speaker 2: said it to keep by soulmates.

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Speaker 2: See, the reason that don't fly is because see it

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Speaker 2: sin in it. Your pastor told you there are no rules,

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Speaker 2: which means you can do anything you want to do.

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Speaker 2: Now what that'sad in the Bible. You need to change churches.

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Speaker 2: People say your relationship won't last. Do you think I'm

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Speaker 2: If you have a question, why you think you have

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Speaker 2: still with that lady in that ball over there, in

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Speaker 1: She knows this is wrong.

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Speaker 2: All right, you got change churches.

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