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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: We got it for you. Here It is Drawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject My man treats me like an afterthought.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been in a relationship for almost

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Speaker 1: two years, and when I think about the things this

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Speaker 1: man has shown me sexually and mentally, I am floored.

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Speaker 1: He literally takes my breath away. But there are a

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Speaker 1: few problems with our relationship. We've never spent a night together,

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Speaker 1: and I've never met his family except for his twin

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Speaker 1: daughters and their mother. What except for his twin daughters

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Speaker 1: and their mother. It was a quick high and by

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Speaker 1: when we ran into them at Target. We were not

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Speaker 1: together on our one year anniversary because of his job.

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Speaker 1: You got it now. I didn't see him on Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day because he had his daughters that night. I saw

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Speaker 1: him the next day and he gave me flowers. His

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Speaker 1: birthday is three days before Christmas, but I didn't see

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Speaker 1: him until Christmas Eve because his grandparents were in town.

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Speaker 1: There was nothing on Christmas Day, and he went to

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Speaker 1: church for New Year's Eve without me. Then he came

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Speaker 1: over for a few hours on New Year's Day to

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Speaker 1: make up for it. I don't discuss how I feel

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Speaker 1: about things for fear of running him off, because he

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Speaker 1: told me his ex girlfriend nagged him a lot. He

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Speaker 1: is always busy if I asked to see him. If

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Speaker 1: I asked to see him, but when he calls me,

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Speaker 1: I will drop everything to be with him. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why he's acting this way, and I pray it's

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Speaker 1: not what my subconsciousness telling me it is. In his

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Speaker 1: defense end, he does work extreme hours. He has his

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Speaker 1: kids every other weekend, and he likes to chill with

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Speaker 1: his boys to unwind. I offered to cook dinner at

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Speaker 1: his house so we could have a heart to heart,

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Speaker 1: and he said he still needs to buy furniture and

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Speaker 1: fix his place up before I can come over. I

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Speaker 1: need him to make me a priority in his life.

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Speaker 1: How can I get this through to him? Has our

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Speaker 1: relationship run its course, He'll never make you a priority.

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Speaker 1: He'll never do that because guess what, he already has

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Speaker 1: a priority in his life. Okay, he has a priority.

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Speaker 1: You should have titled and titled this letter for two

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Speaker 1: years I've been in a relationship with a married man,

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Speaker 1: because that's what it is. I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 1: You never ever get holidays. You don't get Christmas. You

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Speaker 1: don't even get his birthday, which is three days before Christmas.

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Speaker 1: You don't get New Year's Eve. You don't get New

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Speaker 1: Year's Day, well, you get a couple of hours when

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Speaker 1: he decides to come over. You don't get Valentine's Day,

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Speaker 1: that's the day for lovers. You don't get anything. And

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Speaker 1: he played you so hard. He told you his ex

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Speaker 1: girlfriend nagged a lot. So now you're scared, you said,

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Speaker 1: you're scared of running him off. You're scared to tell

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Speaker 1: him how you feel and what all of this means

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Speaker 1: to you, and why doesn't he spend more time with you,

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Speaker 1: and what's going on. You're scared to bring up how

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Speaker 1: you feel he puts you off. He's always too busy

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Speaker 1: for you. He's got the kids every other weekend, or

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Speaker 1: he's going out with his boys. You can't even go

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Speaker 1: and you make excuses for him at every turn. You

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Speaker 1: have to stop this talking about in his defense, he's

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Speaker 1: very busy, Yeah, busy with his wife and family running

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Speaker 1: away from you. You have to stop all of this.

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Speaker 1: You got to stop seeing him. You have to stop

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Speaker 1: answering his call, stop calling him, stop everything, all of

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Speaker 1: the above, because you already know what's going on. You

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Speaker 1: said it. You're subconscious. You don't want it to be

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Speaker 1: what you're subconscious is telling you that it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. Listen to your self conscious, all right. Please,

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Speaker 1: please don't be stupid on this. I mean, don't be

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Speaker 1: just don't be. Get yourself together. Listen to your head

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Speaker 1: and not your heart. In this situation, the man has

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Speaker 1: a wife. Steve, I just wow, I know how long

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Speaker 1: have we been doing these letters? Yeah? How obvious does

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Speaker 1: given advice on this subject? Right here? You say, my

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Speaker 1: you are. See. You solved that the answer is in

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Speaker 1: the letter. I've been in relationship for two years and

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Speaker 1: now hear what you hear you, hear the glory of it.

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Speaker 1: When I think about the thing this man has shown

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Speaker 1: me sexually and mentally, I'm floored. Why well, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about what he didn't showed you. We don't know what

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Speaker 1: he's doing sexually, but obviously you sprung. He literally takes

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Speaker 1: my breath away. Now he go to letter. We've got

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Speaker 1: some problems though I've never spent an we've never spent

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Speaker 1: a night together, and I've never met his family. What

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Speaker 1: two years and you ain't been over his house? And

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Speaker 1: later on in the letters say because he ain't got

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Speaker 1: no furniture? Who take two years to get a couch?

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Speaker 1: A couch? Who have got this place? And in two

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Speaker 1: years ain't got a couch, ain't got no damn bad

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Speaker 1: ain't got a TV? Who been a day house for

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Speaker 1: two years without no damn cable? And somewhere that sick?

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Speaker 1: Where do he eat when he at home? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean he don't have furniture? Listen to me, And

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Speaker 1: I've never met his family except for his twin daughters

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Speaker 1: we ran into them and talking that was an accident.

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Speaker 1: That was a damn accident. He damn show. Wasn't it

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Speaker 1: for you to meet them in? But you did? We

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Speaker 1: were not together on our one year anniversary. That's because

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Speaker 1: y'all don't have anniversary. What did you What did you

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Speaker 1: making up? Y'all don't have anniversary because of his job.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see him on Valentine's Day. That because you

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Speaker 1: ain't his Valentine. I'm gonna just give it to you

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Speaker 1: because he had his daughters that night. Who'll spend Valentine's

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Speaker 1: with the damn kids? Right, we're supposed to be having

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Speaker 1: sex on Valentine's Day? What did your kids in here? Fault?

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Speaker 1: Keep your asswa fing the dog crazy? I got the

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Speaker 1: rest of it for you when I come back, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even pulling no punches with this. Please don't.

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Speaker 1: We'll have part two Steve's response coming up at twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after the hour. You're listening, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. My man treats

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Speaker 1: me like an afterthought. Well that's caused you are, and

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Speaker 1: it's all in the damn letter. Other than when y'all

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Speaker 1: having this crazy ass sex where you didn't learn so

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Speaker 1: much you on the floe. So now he literally takes

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Speaker 1: my breath away. But then we got some problems. She

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Speaker 1: ain't never spend the night at the man's house two years?

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Speaker 1: Why because he say he don't have no furniture yet.

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Speaker 1: My question is, who ain't bought a couch in two years?

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Speaker 1: I don't know where do he eat when he at home?

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Speaker 1: He just standing in the middle of the floor with

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Speaker 1: quick hid by we ran into them at Target. That

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Speaker 1: on our one year anniversary. That's because y'all don't have anniversaries.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going over what I went over and then

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Speaker 1: we'll get to the rest of it. Because of his job,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see him on Valentine's Day. No, that ain't

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day because you ain't as Valentine because he had

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Speaker 1: with their kids, even if it's my week of custody.

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Speaker 1: Somebody for the watch their ass or Valentine's Night because

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Speaker 1: I got to go see somebody naked with a dipper

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Speaker 1: on with a bowling arrow Cupid. I didn't played Cupid

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Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day. I didn't jumped out the closet with

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Speaker 1: a dipper A long time ago. Y'all ain't know me.

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Speaker 1: Then I was young. I had the body for that dipper.

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Speaker 1: I saw him the next day and he gave me flowers.

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Speaker 1: You know why you got flowers because he spent all

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Speaker 1: other girl. And anybody can give you flowers, that's just stop.

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Speaker 1: They sell them on the corner. His birthday is three

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Speaker 1: days before Christmas, but I didn't see him until Christmas

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Speaker 1: Eve because his grandparents was in time. Wow, who need

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Speaker 1: four days with some old ass people that say marry Christmas?

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Speaker 1: Who needs full damn days with some old people that

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Speaker 1: as Joe. No, no, no no, that's where you're wrong. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day was popping. It was jis family woman. Christmas

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Speaker 1: leave their house on Christmas Day? And why would he

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Speaker 1: that was nothing on Christmas Day. And he went to

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Speaker 1: church on New Year's Eve without me. That man was

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. His ass ain't go to church on

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Then he came over for a few

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Speaker 1: I bet that's when y'all was in the flow having

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Speaker 1: eight years. She wearing his asked the death about coming over,

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Speaker 1: why he's acting this way. What you've been with him

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Speaker 1: other way. I pray is not what my suspicion is

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Speaker 1: telling me. It is stop praying for something God gives

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Speaker 1: you to protect you. You have this thing called intuition.

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Speaker 1: It's telling you. Now you want to call it yourself conscious.

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Speaker 1: I'm prayers, not what my self conscious is telling me.

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Speaker 1: It's your intuition and it is telling you that. And

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Speaker 1: woman has done it. True. Now in his defense, he

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Speaker 1: does work extreme hours. What is he a force fighter?

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Speaker 1: Come on? What job he got where he work for

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Speaker 1: stream hours? What is he in the UFC fighter? What

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I want to cook dinner

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Speaker 1: He's not. How can I get through to him? You can't.

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Speaker 1: Is our relationship run his course? You have no relationship.

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Speaker 1: That's your strawberry lever all right? Thank you, Steve. Post

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