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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I was married for almost fifteen years and

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Speaker 1: Or does he just want to have sex? All right?

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Speaker 1: Because if it were so, you would have put that

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Speaker 1: Strawberry letter. The subject my ex husband wants me to

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letter. The subject my ex husband and want

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Speaker 1: me me to be his side chick. Well that's interesting

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Speaker 1: because you were married for fifteen years and you husband

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Speaker 1: spoon with no damn body? What a spoony anyway, I know,

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Speaker 1: But we spoon so we can get the fuck out.

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Speaker 1: One more time. We spooned so we can get the

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Speaker 1: fuck out. I'm just telling you that was really good.

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Speaker 1: That was really good. Yes, to get the fuck out

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Speaker 1: like that? Now? Uh, he said he craves my body.

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Speaker 1: you ever had. You married fifteen years, you didn't cheat

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Speaker 1: but you definitely want to have sex. So you had

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Speaker 1: That's why he the best. He had nothing else. That's

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Speaker 1: easy to beat them best when you're the only one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Now I told him to go home to his fiance.

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Speaker 1: here's the whole letter. I told him there's no where

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Speaker 1: If you let me hold you one more time? I'll

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Speaker 1: because you ain't getting it from nobody else. You said

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Speaker 1: Let's stop this. He's ready to come home, he already

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Speaker 1: it that? Is that what it is he wants to

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Speaker 1: Here's a deal, lady, he wants to play you because

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Speaker 1: If you just let me hold you one more time alive,

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Speaker 1: He said this before. He tells this to everybody. Now,

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Speaker 1: It's the same. He still cheats. Of course, he wants

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Speaker 1: He has not changed any of his behavior. He's just

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Speaker 1: I'll be the side chick. And yes he misses you. Yes,

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