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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letters. Thank you, nephew. Subject number

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Speaker 1: two will never be number one. Dear Stephen Shirley. I

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Speaker 1: was a single and attractive thirty four year old woman

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Speaker 1: losing hope at finding love. I grew tired of the

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Speaker 1: dating cycle and I decided that I would not have

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Speaker 1: sex again until I was married. I prayed and practiced celibacy,

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Speaker 1: and a year later I met the man of my dreams.

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Speaker 1: He is handsome, educated, gainfully employed, and he loves the Lord.

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Speaker 1: I fell hard for this man, and a year after

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Speaker 1: we met, we got married. I was so excited for

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Speaker 1: my wedding night because it would be our first time

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Speaker 1: making love. He is blessed with the proper equipment, but

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Speaker 1: it's his skill set that's lacking. On our wedding night,

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Speaker 1: I had the absolute worst sexual experience I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: It was four minutes from start to finish. Then he

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Speaker 1: passed out and slept like he has showed out. Since then,

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Speaker 1: he's been overly confident, and he's not as attentive and

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Speaker 1: loving as when we met. Six months into the marriage,

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Speaker 1: I ran into an old friend from college and he

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Speaker 1: had some dental work done and it made a world

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Speaker 1: of difference in his appearance. We had lunch and we

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Speaker 1: talked for hours. He said that when I got married

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Speaker 1: it broke his heart because he's always had a big

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Speaker 1: crush on me, but didn't think I'd give him the

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Speaker 1: time of day. Well, I've given him a lot more

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Speaker 1: than that. I'm falling for this man because he has

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Speaker 1: given me his whole heart, and he holds me after sex,

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Speaker 1: kisses my nose, and looks unto my soul when he

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Speaker 1: talks to me. I'm ready to get a divorce and

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Speaker 1: date my boyfriend for a while. I want to be happy,

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Speaker 1: and so far this guy could be my soul mate.

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Speaker 1: Steve says that number two will never be number one,

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Speaker 1: So I want your opinion on my situation. What if

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Speaker 1: this time there is an exception to the rule. Could

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Speaker 1: this be true love? Wow? Well, by exception to the rule.

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Speaker 1: You mean he's your number two, right, and you're thinking

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Speaker 1: of making him number one, replacing your husband with him.

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Speaker 1: Could this be true love? You ask, Well, I don't

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Speaker 1: know about that. I don't know if love has anything

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Speaker 1: to do with this. I do think lust is all

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Speaker 1: over this situation, though, I do. And instead of and

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Speaker 1: would you say, Steve, that was Thomas Good? Oh oh oh, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was. Yeah, I don't. I don't say

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Speaker 1: stupid stuff out of nowhere, Okay, okay, And you're right

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Speaker 1: about that. And I should have known better, because I

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Speaker 1: do know you. You know you. You talked in the

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Speaker 1: beginning of your letter how you grew tired, you decided

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't have sex again, you started losing hope and

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Speaker 1: finding love, and then you met this great man, the

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Speaker 1: man of your dreams, and six months into your marriage,

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Speaker 1: you've already cheated on him. Instead of trying to fix

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Speaker 1: your new marriage and fight for it, you haven't done

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Speaker 1: that at all. I mean, I think you've checked out,

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Speaker 1: You've moved on just six months in. Uh. I think

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Speaker 1: you're falling for the grass is always greener trap and

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Speaker 1: not once, did you say you tried to, you know,

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Speaker 1: talk to your husband about what you like, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he could do something better. And then wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: you did say you prayed, you practice celibacy, and your

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Speaker 1: husband loves the Lord, so I would think that you

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Speaker 1: would honor your marriage vows since you're the one that

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Speaker 1: brought the Lord into it. I don't know. This letter

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Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you to leave your number two alone and

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Speaker 1: try to work on your number one right now, since

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Speaker 1: it's only been six months into it. But I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna listen at this point. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think so. Um Steve M. I'm sure as I don't

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Speaker 1: think she's gonna listen what she wants. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: understand what you said. I think you make valid points

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Speaker 1: in here too. The number two will never be number one.

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Speaker 1: Let me help you out with something you said. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with the letter. Steve says number twos will never

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Speaker 1: be number one. So I want your opinion on my situation.

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Speaker 1: What if this time that's an exception to the rule.

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Speaker 1: Could this be true? Love, I said me, and don't

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Speaker 1: make their number twos when they have a number one.

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Speaker 1: If a guy has a solid his ride to die

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Speaker 1: and that's what he called it, hub and then he

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Speaker 1: got a chick on the side, and your number two.

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Speaker 1: We don't promote number twos to number one because you

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Speaker 1: ain't considered ride to die. That's what the situation is.

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Speaker 1: So now this is a different situation because you're married.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to be your husband's number one, and your

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Speaker 1: husband is supposed to be YO number one. But now

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Speaker 1: you are a woman wanting to promote YO number two

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Speaker 1: to the number one position, and that's what you're wanting

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Speaker 1: to do. This is rare very. Let me walk you

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Speaker 1: through some contradictions in this letter before I give you

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Speaker 1: what I want to say. You didn't have sex to use.

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Speaker 1: Married thirty four, your old woman found this man. He's

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Speaker 1: man of your dreams. He's handsome, educated, gainfully employed, and

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Speaker 1: he loves the Lord. You did not mention how much

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Speaker 1: you love the Lord. Brought him up though, Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: he loves the Lord. You ain't say nothing about you.

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Speaker 1: I feel half for this man, and a year after

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Speaker 1: we met we got married. I was so excited from

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Speaker 1: my wed night because if we our first time making love,

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Speaker 1: he's blessed with the proper equipment, but it's his skill

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Speaker 1: set that's lacking. Oh so you took a year off

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Speaker 1: still had joe skills, So what are we really talking

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Speaker 1: about him? All right? Hold on, Steve, Yeah, Part two

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Speaker 1: of Steve's response is coming up at twenty three minutes after.

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Speaker 1: Number two will never be number one is the subject.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this you're listening to, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter object number

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Speaker 1: two will never be number one. This is an interesting

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Speaker 1: letter about this woman who states that Steve says that

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Speaker 1: the number two will never be number one. So I

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Speaker 1: won't opinion on my situation. What is this? What if

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Speaker 1: this time there's an exception to the rule. Could this

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Speaker 1: be true love? I'm gonna get to this part quickly.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, she married this guy, a man

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Speaker 1: of her dreams, everything. She's been sellibate for a year

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Speaker 1: and a half. She didn't have sex to her wedding night.

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Speaker 1: She was so excited about the sex. She felt hard

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Speaker 1: for the man. They made love. He got the right equipment,

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Speaker 1: but his skill said, it's lacking. Our wedding night, I

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Speaker 1: had the absolute worst sexual experience I ever had. It

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Speaker 1: was four minutes from start to finish. And so he

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Speaker 1: didn't got you undressed, took all them buttons off that

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Speaker 1: wedding dress, got all them guards down and highs and

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Speaker 1: all that, and unsnapped all of him strengths and got

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Speaker 1: all that stuff unstrapped, and got them clips wedding dresses

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Speaker 1: to have about four or five pieces to it. Who

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Speaker 1: and then right after that it was over in four minutes,

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Speaker 1: and he passed out and slept like he has showed

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Speaker 1: out to him he did. Now he'd asked sex in

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Speaker 1: a year and a half either, So come on, now,

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Speaker 1: this a lot of it's a lot. So the first time,

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Speaker 1: maybe he didn't do right, but I guess he continued

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Speaker 1: that way because since then he's been overly confident. He's

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Speaker 1: not as attentive and a loving as he was when

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Speaker 1: you met. So other words, I'm assuming you're saying that

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Speaker 1: he's become ericant for some reason, that maybe he think

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Speaker 1: he all that because you ain't looking upside his head

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Speaker 1: the right way. You know this four minutes. You need

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Speaker 1: to stop before we get the excuse me, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: excuse me? Can I get more than fault today what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. Can we do eight? Let's get a clock.

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Speaker 1: You need a timer on the night stand, hit a

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Speaker 1: thing like a chess clock, and he needs I need

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Speaker 1: eight from you tonight. Let's work. Let's beat last night.

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Speaker 1: We need twelve. But he ain't been given a teeth.

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Speaker 1: So you ran into an old college for it had

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Speaker 1: some dinner work done. So that means before in college

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Speaker 1: he had a ragged ass mouth. But now he didn't

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Speaker 1: got this dinner work done. And he's made a world

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Speaker 1: of difference. He said when he got married and broke

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Speaker 1: his heart, he always had a big crush on me.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't think I'd give him the time of day. Well, hell,

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Speaker 1: he knew he wasn't. He had a ragged ass mouth.

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Speaker 1: He knew, well he knew, he knew the girl wasn't

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Speaker 1: gonna give him time a day. You got ragged ass mouth.

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Speaker 1: Raggedy mouth fans me and no they ain't got no

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Speaker 1: you know your teeth is they gonna see your teeth?

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Speaker 1: Hard to hide your teeth. We you're talking, can't laugh

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Speaker 1: with bad teeth, and you can't even have a good

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Speaker 1: well I've given him a lot more than that. I'm

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Speaker 1: falling for this man because he's given me his whole heart.

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Speaker 1: He holds me after sex, kisses my nose, looks into

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Speaker 1: my soul when he talks to me. I'm ready to

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Speaker 1: get the voice and date my boyfriend, and date my

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Speaker 1: far this guy could be my soul mate. Steve says,

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Speaker 1: it's number two, will never be number one. So I

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Speaker 1: want your opinion on this situation. What if this time

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Speaker 1: there's an exception to the rule. Could this be true love?

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Speaker 1: All right? Here's my answer. It could be you may

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Speaker 1: have married a person that's not your soul mate. It

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Speaker 1: happens all the time. Sometime it take a minute to

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Speaker 1: find your soul mate. Sometime it take more than one time.

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Speaker 1: Help me Jesus through this letter. I think it's maybe

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Speaker 1: a mistake. I think this. Once you got to live

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Speaker 1: discover some things that might not be changeable. Now you

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Speaker 1: can go to counseling, But you got to be in

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Speaker 1: love with this man. If you're not in love with

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Speaker 1: a person, that ain't gonna work. Tina Turner said, whoa.

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Speaker 1: Of course love got to do with it. She got

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Speaker 1: the two different things. I feel. I fel hard for

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people in my life. Got my

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Speaker 1: ass right back up though, too. Yeah, I'm fel hard

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Speaker 1: for a whole lot of damn people. Got my ass

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Speaker 1: right on back up? Let me stop. You marry them though?

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Speaker 1: Did you marry them though? I'm on my third man,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people. You haven't had a whole

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Speaker 1: everybody I fell for. I failed for three women because

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Speaker 1: girl at the club, yeah, when I was homeless, I

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Speaker 1: at first sight, first sight, at first I love you

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Speaker 1: as soon as I heard her. She has some keys jangly, Hey,

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Speaker 1: who is the keys too? She said? My apartment apartment

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Speaker 1: A dope, You've got a bath room, that room, a kitchen. Girl,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it could be. And you may have married

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Speaker 1: counsel ain't gonna save all of them. Sometimes you made

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Speaker 1: a mistake, you gotta eat the mistake, Sona. It is

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