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Speaker 1: gonna read this one right here, right now, right now.

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Speaker 1: Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for

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Speaker 1: you here. It is twenty twenty two Strawberry Letter. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: fh you subject Sanna stop by the wrong House. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty year old married woman and

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Speaker 1: my husband and I have two children, ages six and eight.

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Speaker 1: He's a fireman, so he's used to dressing as Santa

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Speaker 1: for the neighborhood and the kids come by the fire

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Speaker 1: station and get free pictures with Sanna. He and two

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Speaker 1: other guys do it annually. This Christmas, my husband played

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Speaker 1: Sannah the day before Christmas Eve. He was at the

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Speaker 1: station all day while I wrap presents and got the

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Speaker 1: house together for my parents to come visit. My six

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Speaker 1: year old son wanted to see Santa for the one

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Speaker 1: hundredth time, so I drove over to the station. My

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Speaker 1: hobby wasn't there, but his coworker was dressed in the suit,

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Speaker 1: so my son was happy. Later that evening, my husband

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Speaker 1: came home and told me he'd have to work on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and he'd come home on Christmas morning in

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Speaker 1: the Santa suit to surprise the kids. While on Christmas morning,

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Speaker 1: it got to be nine am, and the kids had

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Speaker 1: been up and had breakfast, but Santa didn't show up.

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Speaker 1: I called and Santa didn't answer. Around eleven am, Santa

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Speaker 1: came in and said he got caught up at work.

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Speaker 1: I knew he was lying because I could smell perfume

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Speaker 1: on his Santa suit. There was a makeup on the

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Speaker 1: white beard, and I could see he wasn't wearing underwear

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Speaker 1: under those thin Santa pants. I was very embarrassed because

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Speaker 1: I know my mother noticed it too. He played Santa

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Speaker 1: and then tried to rush to the shower, but I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't let him get undressed unless I was in the room.

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Speaker 1: So he slept in the darned suit all day. It says,

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Speaker 1: darn suit. Look at it. I thought it was bad.

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Speaker 1: You wanted it to be, no, didn't you. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: he slept. He slept in the darned suit all day.

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Speaker 1: He got text messages from the same number all day,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't want to snoop through his phone. This

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Speaker 1: ruined my holidays. And now he's not talking to me

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Speaker 1: because I accused him of cheating. Is he being defensive

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Speaker 1: because he's guilty? Please help? You already know the answer,

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Speaker 1: you already know, and I'm so sorry to say it's yes.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's defensive because he's guilty of cheating on you.

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Speaker 1: He was wherever he was doing exactly what you think

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Speaker 1: he was doing. The perfume that you smelled and the

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Speaker 1: makeup you saw with your own eyes was real, and

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Speaker 1: that is your proof. I mean, in case clothes, that's

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Speaker 1: all you would need. Right the Aaron poured a law, Right,

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Speaker 1: Judge Steve, don't let him flip this one on you.

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Speaker 1: Please don't let let him do that. You did nothing wrong.

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Speaker 1: He is a nerve to be giving you the silent treatment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's the one who did the dirt. Looks

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Speaker 1: like he was doing dirt on Christmas Day. Dirt on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. That's not you don't cheat on Christmas, Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't do that. You still let him live. He did

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Speaker 1: all that, he embarrassed. You're in front of your parents.

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Speaker 1: Your kids didn't see him till around eleven. They had

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Speaker 1: had breakfast, open their gifts, probably everything, and everyone knows

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Speaker 1: that Santa visits at night and leaves the toys. But

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Speaker 1: this Santa husband of yours, without cheating. He tried to

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Speaker 1: cover it up by saying he was working. You know better,

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Speaker 1: you know the truth. It's just a matter of how

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Speaker 1: do you deal with this and move forward? And I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry this had to happen to you on Christmas Day,

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Speaker 1: but you're cheating Santa husband, Steve, did you say everybody

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Speaker 1: knows Santa come at night? Santa comes at night? Didn't

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Speaker 1: have nothing else to say? You head out of stuff

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Speaker 1: to say Santa comes at night. I'm so mad that

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Speaker 1: this is the opening letter for twenty twenty two. The

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Speaker 1: ridiculousness of this is just it is uh, it's alarming

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Speaker 1: to me, ma'am why you wrote this letter? Because you're farty,

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Speaker 1: you're married, you got two kids. Your husband, it is

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Speaker 1: a fireman and he plays Santa Claus down at the

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Speaker 1: fire station every year, which means your husband kind of

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Speaker 1: large this Christmas? What well, come on? Her husband gotta

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Speaker 1: be kind of large. Well, oh, of all the men

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Speaker 1: down at the fire stay high he Santa. You think

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Speaker 1: you think they chick the skinniest person. I'm just going

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Speaker 1: with it. I'm trying to turn this up. There's letter

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Speaker 1: into something. Since this is the first one in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, I'm not gonna play with these letters no more.

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Speaker 1: Stop talking to me about fat shaming and all this

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Speaker 1: hill When they pick you to be Santa, class size

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Speaker 1: got something to do with it. They probably picked him

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Speaker 1: because he the only one that comes like like when

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Speaker 1: you come down the pole at the fire house. Whoever

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Speaker 1: the slowers probably end up having to be selling he

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Speaker 1: was cheating. Well, we'll get to that. All the kids

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Speaker 1: come to the fire station, get free pictures with Santa club,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. You at the house wrapping presents, getting

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Speaker 1: ready for your parents to come over to the house.

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Speaker 1: Your son down now said he was not when your

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Speaker 1: at the station all day. Now, you're six year old

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Speaker 1: want to see Santa for one hundred times. So you

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Speaker 1: go to the station. Your husband wasn't there, but his

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Speaker 1: coworker was dressed in the suit. Now let me ask

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Speaker 1: you a questions. If you go to the fire station

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Speaker 1: and your husband posted be at Whorton. I've never been

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Speaker 1: a fireman before, but if you act the work at

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Speaker 1: the fire station, you either at the fire station or

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Speaker 1: you at the fire and the fire right now. If

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Speaker 1: all the trucks is in now and all all the

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Speaker 1: firemen is in there, where your fire assle mister Chubby?

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Speaker 1: All that thought, Steve. We'll have part two of Steam's

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Speaker 1: response coming up with twenty three minutes after the hour

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Speaker 1: today strawberry letters, subject Santa stopped at the Wronghouse. We'll

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

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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 letters. Santa stopped at the wrong house. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: forty year old lady marriage to is fat As firement

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Speaker 1: that play Santa Claus every year for the kids down there.

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Speaker 1: They got two kids of their own, six and eight.

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Speaker 1: He said he was done. He said he was down

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Speaker 1: there at the fire station that day. And so your

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Speaker 1: six year old son wanted to go see Santa for

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Speaker 1: a hundred times. So she drove to the station. Your

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Speaker 1: husband wasn't now, but his coworker was dressed in the suit,

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Speaker 1: so your son was happy. Now, if your husband supposed

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Speaker 1: to be at work, but he ain't at work, and

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Speaker 1: he at five, and you're not at the fire station,

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Speaker 1: you must be at the five because they were two

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Speaker 1: things they do at the fire station. He'd wait on

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Speaker 1: in the box. All right, all right, later that and

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Speaker 1: now your husband wasn't there. Now, Later that evening, your

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve and he'd come home on Christmas morning

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Speaker 1: in the Santa suit to surprise the kids. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: I got you. Well. On Christmas morning, it got about

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Speaker 1: nine am. The kids have been up and breakfast, had breakfast,

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Speaker 1: but Santa didn't show up. As we lay we forgot

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Speaker 1: a buy marrow as we laid me. Yeah, I hate that,

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Speaker 1: damn song boy, because I've been there. Man happened to

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Speaker 1: me a long, long, long time ago. But oh lord,

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Speaker 1: I laid up there way too. Damn lord. Oh my

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Speaker 1: eyes if he was squinting, called sunlight coming through the women. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm don't getting here. Well, I'm supposed to be at home.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Christmas Eve. I didn't have a Santa Claus

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Speaker 1: suit or nothing. So now where Christmas morning got about

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Speaker 1: nine am, the kids been up breakfast, but Santa didn't

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Speaker 1: show up. I called Santa. He didn't answer. By eleven am,

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Speaker 1: Santa came in and said he got caught up at work.

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Speaker 1: The only thing can happen if you get caught up

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Speaker 1: at the work. YO asked us to be out of fire.

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Speaker 1: Was no fires on the news on Christmas Day, which

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Speaker 1: is news. I knew he was lying because I could

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Speaker 1: was advanced because I know my mother noticed it too.

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Speaker 1: All right, now we got a problem because he has

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Speaker 1: not developed a lie for the perfume, the makeup or

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Speaker 1: the thin suit. Santa Claus was outswinging now, But the

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Speaker 1: got is he didn't develop a life for And it's

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Speaker 1: too late for the line because now he tried to rush.

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Speaker 1: He played Santa and then he tried to rush to

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Speaker 1: I was in the room. Yah, So he slept in

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Speaker 1: the suit all day. That's the only thing he did

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Speaker 1: that had value. He slept well, hedn't he knew he

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Speaker 1: couldn't get necking because it's way too much. He still

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Speaker 1: got on gift wrapping paper up under there, he got.

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Speaker 1: He got some bold stuck on his ass. They was

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Speaker 1: doing some crystals stuff that was got kid friendly. His ass,

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Speaker 1: got wrapping paper, glitter on he got. He still got

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Speaker 1: he got to get all this. He got the fruitcake,

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Speaker 1: it a belly button, he got eggs all Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: to get this water and get all this crystma stuff on.

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Speaker 1: She made him leave the bed on because she had

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Speaker 1: a fantasy. She always wanted to do center, so she

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Speaker 1: same numba all day. But I didn't want to snoop

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Speaker 1: this on this rule of my holidays. And now he's

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Speaker 1: Is he being defensive because he's guilty. No, he's not

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Speaker 1: being defensive, he's being offensive because what my brother taught

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Speaker 1: me a long time ago, the best defense is a

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Speaker 1: you accuse me of cheating and she has ever did,

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Speaker 1: and she's correct. Why would he sleep in that damn suit?

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Speaker 1: Why the makeup come from what nine year old? You

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Speaker 1: didn't had on your lap with a full face of makeup,

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Speaker 1: and you ain't got no drawls on. Santa Claus got

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Speaker 1: to wear a draw I'm telling you right now, your

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Speaker 1: ass is going to prison if you sit up in

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Speaker 1: here the mall trying to play Santa Claus with no

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Speaker 1: damn draws on. That ain't even look all right. And

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Speaker 1: you got to get a thicker suit. Next you Today

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