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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you need

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Speaker 1: When you hear it, it could be yours. You never know,

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Speaker 1: you never know. Buckle up and hold on tight. We

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Speaker 1: got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject he's doing the job for now.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty seven year old divorce

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Speaker 1: female and I'm in need of advice. I'm in management

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Speaker 1: I have two nice cars, and I'm very active in

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Speaker 1: my community with cherries, charities and civic organizations. After I

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Speaker 1: got a divorce, I've vowed to live my life on

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Speaker 1: my own terms and treat men as an option, not

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Speaker 1: a necessity. My ex husband cheated on me and it

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Speaker 1: made me bitter at first, but I moved past it.

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Speaker 1: What I was missing the most from being married for

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Speaker 1: nine years was the intimacy. I joined an online dating

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Speaker 1: site to meet a man just for sex. I met

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Speaker 1: a guy that is forty one and never been married

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Speaker 1: of it because I've had fraudulent charges before. My friends

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Speaker 1: always say I have plenty of book sense but no

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Speaker 1: common sense, but I believe that people have good intentions

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Speaker 1: until they proved me wrong. Well, he's proven that he's

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Speaker 1: a shiftless bum with no real job, place to live,

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Speaker 1: or or his own car. What he does have going

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Speaker 1: for him is unbelievably good sex, and I get the

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Speaker 1: full head to toe performance almost daily. The sex is

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Speaker 1: so good it's clouded my judgment, and I started taking

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Speaker 1: him out to events with me. I don't think I'll

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Speaker 1: a little jealous if other women compliment him. Am I

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Speaker 1: playing a dangerous game and will end up hurt again? Listen, Listen,

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Speaker 1: You're whipped. Okay, you're whipped. You're whipped, and you're probably

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Speaker 1: already in love with this guy. I mean, though you

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Speaker 1: don't think you are, you probably are. That's why you say, well,

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Speaker 1: I end up hurt again, because it's definitely you're not there.

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Speaker 1: You're headed in that direction. You're getting jealous of other

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Speaker 1: women that compliment him, and you say your judgment is clouded.

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Speaker 1: You called him a shiftless bum, yet you're still sleeping

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Speaker 1: with him and taking him to events with you. Now

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Speaker 1: your friends know it too, because they know you. And

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Speaker 1: this is what happens when you blame all men for

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Speaker 1: your husband's cheating. Your husband is just one man. I mean,

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Speaker 1: don't put that on all men. I think that's why

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Speaker 1: you're where you are right now. I think you're scared

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Speaker 1: of your feelings for this guy. Because one man cheated

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Speaker 1: be vulnerable or open again. And that's what you meant

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Speaker 1: when you said you're going to treat men as an

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Speaker 1: you for more than that. Okay. He has no job,

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Speaker 1: he has no car, he has no home. Now Here

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Speaker 1: you are knowing that you're in the danger zone of

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Speaker 1: falling in love with this guy with this shiftless bomb,

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Speaker 1: as you call him, because he gives you unbelievably good

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Speaker 1: sex every day again your words. Of course, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: doing this every day and you know you guys are

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Speaker 1: kicking it and hanging out. It doesn't matter how many

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Speaker 1: You're a woman with real emotions and really real feelings.

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Speaker 1: Now for this shiftless bomb. That's why your friends say

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Speaker 1: you have no common sense. He's starting to break you

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Speaker 1: You can't go from bad to worse. That's what you've

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Speaker 1: done with this shiftless bomb. Steve. Listen all the stuff

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Speaker 1: Shirley said. It's fine. I agree with everything. Shirley said.

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Speaker 1: I just want to break, to let it down. That's

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Speaker 1: this letter, stupid town. Now you're forty seven year old

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Speaker 1: I know very few that are some women who do it.

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Speaker 1: You're active in the community with charities and SIFICA. Well

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Speaker 1: after you got divorce. Now you've vowed to live your

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Speaker 1: That's your business. X has been cheated on me. You

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Speaker 1: the intimacy. So you got online and you needed to

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Speaker 1: meet a man. This is you now to meet a

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Speaker 1: he ain't never been married, he ain't got no kids.

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Speaker 1: He foughty one here on the dating site. He looking

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Speaker 1: for guests. What same thing you looking for jess sex.

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Speaker 1: There you go. So now everything out to this letter

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Speaker 1: is stupid to me. Any complaints you have, any any

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Speaker 1: me because you just said you joined the online dating

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Speaker 1: he got the same goals for Kazmi hanging out and

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Speaker 1: having said come on shore. We'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: Steven's response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: He's doing the job for now as the subject. We'll

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Speaker 1: Harty Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letter of the subject he's doing the job

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Speaker 1: for now. Well, you know, here we go. Forty seven

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Speaker 1: year old divorce woman need advice. She got some properties

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Speaker 1: with charities and civic organization. Sound like a real together woman,

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Speaker 1: and you vowed after divorce to live your own terms

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Speaker 1: and treat me in as an option out in necessity that,

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Speaker 1: like I said, that's your BIS. My ex husband cheated

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Speaker 1: moved past it. The only thing you missed was nine

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Speaker 1: years of intimacy, So in order to fix that, you

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Speaker 1: joined an online dating site to meet a man. Here's

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Speaker 1: the key to this whole letter, y'all went online dating

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Speaker 1: site to meet a man just for sex. I met

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Speaker 1: and having sex. So now mission accomplished. Every anything else

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Speaker 1: still typing? Moot? I like the mute because you're quick

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Speaker 1: talking to me moot. I don't know what that means,

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Speaker 1: about you all this, So now everything out to this

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Speaker 1: that don't make no sense to me, So here we go.

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Speaker 1: Let's make no sense. I did a full background check

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Speaker 1: That's easy. Well, got that way, he ain't killed nobody,

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Speaker 1: come on over to my house. So you did that

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Speaker 1: on our first date, right after you found out he

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Speaker 1: All his money on that card right there. He can't

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Speaker 1: agreed just to have sex, but he didn't bring no

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Speaker 1: it would take up twenty four hours to research shot.

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Speaker 1: You believe it. I didn't think anything of it because

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Speaker 1: I've had fraudulent charges before. Yeah you have, but I

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Speaker 1: bet you still had money to eat. Okay. My friends

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Speaker 1: and they prove me wrong. No, No, that's not the

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Speaker 1: take a different approach. I am carefully listening to you

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Speaker 1: You don't go in believe in everything. Anybody tell you

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Speaker 1: me wrong. No, I am listening to you with a

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Speaker 1: Duke's up, all right, Well he's proving that he's a

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Speaker 1: of that in your dating profile? Who are here? Won't

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Speaker 1: You gotta just swipe rash white left. See, you got

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Speaker 1: But what does he have going for him is unbelievable

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Speaker 1: Why because I got a bunch of damn jobs. But

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Speaker 1: Dexter sitting around on his ass all day? Yeah? He ready,

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Speaker 1: you get a whole head to toe. He ain't done

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Speaker 1: So now the sex is so good that it clouded

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Speaker 1: judgment is clouded. You're taking a loser around with you.

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Speaker 1: You're taking them to company Vince. He don't even know

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Speaker 1: You already know what it is headed you. It's hard

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Speaker 1: because if you release these chemicals in your body, I

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Speaker 1: All right? We got you keep sleeping with this man.

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Speaker 1: It's hard. You're gonna lease an oxy cotta at Steve

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