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Speaker 1: could her son be my new man? Well, Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fifty two year old woman and I need

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Speaker 1: I've never I've known her for most of my life,

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Speaker 1: Something inside of me awakened, and it was a feeling

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Speaker 1: I have not had in years. The dance class is

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Speaker 1: him turned me on, even though I know it may

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Speaker 1: be indecent. He has come by the house a couple

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Speaker 1: I am addicted to this gorgeous twenty eight year old man,

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Speaker 1: and he may like me too, because he keeps offering

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Speaker 1: they're just rules, okay, double standards, they're coats to life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure at fifty two and a fifty two year

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Speaker 1: to be with her son because you're so much older

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Speaker 1: not going to fall in this category. Fortunately. Um, she's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be happy about this. Yes, she told you to, um,

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Speaker 1: sleep with him, not to get with him, none of

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Speaker 1: And since I loved the dance, I was intrigued by him.

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Speaker 1: He didn't walked in with the tight ass Spanish pasts on.

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Speaker 1: He didn't change his name. His name is Earl Thomas.

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Speaker 1: this that matter do, held it, the cape stick, all

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Speaker 1: I was overjoyed because any extra time I could get

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Speaker 1: Now that's right. He was come by the house a

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Speaker 1: asking her son out? Officially? Hell? Now he is a

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Speaker 1: idea of us actually becoming family? Are you delusion? God?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you? You lost your rabbit ass mind?

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Speaker 1: Your best friend would like the idea of us actually

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Speaker 1: becoming family. She pictures your friends. See, we can't pick

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Speaker 1: did you say? Next question? Why him? Next statement, you

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Speaker 1: ain't ruining his life. He'll go to big one. She

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Speaker 1: look at you, is ruining her baby's life. Chance to

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Speaker 1: You can bought your old ass in here. You finna

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Speaker 1: do my baby? No you ain't, because I'm gonna do you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, you go in there and tell her,

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