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Speaker 1: It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, And if

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Speaker 1: you need advice on relationships, work, parenting, sex and more,

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Speaker 1: please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com

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Speaker 1: and we will certainly try to help you out do

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Speaker 1: what we can to help you. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: is time for the Strawberry Letter. Well, my good friend

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Speaker 1: Shirley Strawberry, thank you junior subject. He wants two and

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Speaker 1: I do too. Just Stephen, Shirley. I've been in an

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Speaker 1: open relationship with a great man for almost three years.

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Speaker 1: He's been considerate of the way we chose to structure

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Speaker 1: our relationship until a few months ago. To me, no

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Speaker 1: one can be truly faithful, so I chose to be

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Speaker 1: open with my boyfriend. If we're attempted to have sex

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Speaker 1: with other people, we're always honest with each other. Until

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Speaker 1: recently when I caught him out with another woman and

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Speaker 1: she said he was her boyfriend. I know the girl

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Speaker 1: because she works with him, and he always called her

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Speaker 1: out for acting too black or trying to date black men. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she is white. He admitted that he's been hooking up

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Speaker 1: with her. I asked him to bring her over to

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Speaker 1: the house. If that's the case, but he won't share

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Speaker 1: her with me, which made me think he likes her.

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Speaker 1: I told him, if this is how things are going

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Speaker 1: to be, he can move out and I'll just move

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Speaker 1: on with my life. He swore that he'd stopped messing

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Speaker 1: with her. I was still skeptical, so I started seeing

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Speaker 1: a guy I met at the gym. I had never

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Speaker 1: done anything behind my man's back, so it was new

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Speaker 1: and exciting. The sex with this guy was amazing, and

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Speaker 1: he started wanting to see me more and more, so

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Speaker 1: I was making up a lie after lie to sneak

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Speaker 1: out and be with him. I finally told the guy

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Speaker 1: that I was in an open relationship and I couldn't

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Speaker 1: totally commit to him. Then I admitted to my boyfriend

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Speaker 1: that I was sneaking around. He said he was still

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Speaker 1: seeing the white girl, and I was so hurt. He

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Speaker 1: told me that I had to leave my side piece alone.

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Speaker 1: I told him, if he can have two, then I

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Speaker 1: want to too. He told me that I can't do

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Speaker 1: what he does, and he threatened to break up with me.

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Speaker 1: I really love my boyfriend, but I don't feel valued.

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Speaker 1: Am I stupid for being in this open lifestyle? Yes? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: and uh, yes, you're stupid for all of this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're stupid for believing that he stops seeing the white

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Speaker 1: girl and you were hurt. Why you know what kind

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Speaker 1: of relationship you're in? H are you are? You're stupid

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Speaker 1: for letting him control the way you live your life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know it's a double standard in the world. I

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Speaker 1: got that, But it's not okay for him to cheat

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Speaker 1: and then try to control who you see outside of

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Speaker 1: your relationship. Isn't at the very point of an open

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Speaker 1: relationship seeing and sleeping with who you want to and

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Speaker 1: doing what you want. Otherwise it's not an open relationship, right,

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Speaker 1: thank your whole relationship. It's stupid, quite honestly, and there's

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Speaker 1: no future in it for you. You live with the

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Speaker 1: cheater who's trying to justify his cheating by saying you

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Speaker 1: guys are in an open relationship, but in reality, he's

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Speaker 1: the only one open. He doesn't want you to be open.

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Speaker 1: So look, get out of this mess please, And yes,

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Speaker 1: this is all stupid. Steve, Wow, you know what amazes

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Speaker 1: me when people write a letter to us feel with

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Speaker 1: wrong and then wants something right to happen out of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't even see how you think all this. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna read this letter, and I've circled unbelievable statements. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me see. I wish I had a sound effect. Dan,

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Speaker 1: I need a bell. I think we have a bell.

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Speaker 1: He wants to and I do too. Her. When I

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Speaker 1: say bail, can you hit it instantly? Okay? Here we go?

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Speaker 1: All right? You know, it always amazes me that we

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Speaker 1: get these letters that come in fill with so much

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Speaker 1: wrong and unbelievable remarks, comments and statements, and they want

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Speaker 1: us to make some good out of it and some

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Speaker 1: rightness out of it. Right, So I'm gonna read this letter.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask for bail every time I'm about to

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Speaker 1: say something unbelievable. Still, Shirley and Steve, Bill, I've been

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Speaker 1: in an open relationship with a great man for almost

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Speaker 1: three years. Did you hear that? I've been in an

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Speaker 1: open relationship with a great man for three years? Bail.

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Speaker 1: He's been considerate of the way we choose to structure

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Speaker 1: our relationship until a few months ago. Bill to me,

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Speaker 1: no one can be truly faithful, Oh my god, so

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Speaker 1: all marriages are dumed. So I choose to be open

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Speaker 1: with my boyfriend. And if we're attempted to have sex

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Speaker 1: with other people, Bill, we just always be honest with

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Speaker 1: each other, and we are attempted to have sex with

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Speaker 1: other people, that goes to faithfulness out the window. Okay,

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Speaker 1: hang on, Steve, right there, right there, it's a good

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Speaker 1: place to stop, okay, because we gotta take a break

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Speaker 1: at twenty three minutes to have to be our will

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Speaker 1: come back and we'll have part two of Steve's response too.

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Speaker 1: He wants to and I do too. That is the subject.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. You're listening, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject

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Speaker 1: he wants to and I do too. You know, like

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Speaker 1: I said earlier, you right, Shirley and I with these

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Speaker 1: ridiculous statements, these crazy all this wrong going on, and

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Speaker 1: at the end of it you want something good to

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Speaker 1: come out of it and want us to solve a

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Speaker 1: raggedy ass problem. Well, we're not gonna do it today.

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Speaker 1: But what we're all going to do is show you

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Speaker 1: how raggedy this thing is. I'm gonna ring a bell

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Speaker 1: every time I'm about to read something unbelievable. Ready, here

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Speaker 1: we go, just Steven Shelley Bell. I've been in an

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Speaker 1: open relationship with a great man for almost three years. Okay, Bell,

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Speaker 1: He's been considerate of the way we choose to structure

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Speaker 1: our relationship. I bet he has until a few months ago.

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Speaker 1: Bill to me, no one can be truly faithful, So

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Speaker 1: I choose to be open with my boyfriend Bell. If

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Speaker 1: we're tempted to have sex with other people, we always

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Speaker 1: be honest with each other. And too recently I called

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Speaker 1: him out with another woman and she said he was

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend. I know the girl because he worked with him,

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Speaker 1: and he always called out for being too black and

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Speaker 1: trying to date black men. Yes, she is white, Bill.

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Speaker 1: He admitted that he's been hooking up with her. Wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, didn't you just say y'all in a relationship,

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Speaker 1: y'all in an old relationship? Where is the surprise? When

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Speaker 1: he admitted to hook it up with her? I asked who?

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Speaker 1: I don't know whether Bell. I asked him to bring

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Speaker 1: her over to the house if that's the case, but

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Speaker 1: he won't share her with me. What which made me

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Speaker 1: think he likes her? I told him, if this is

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Speaker 1: how things it's gonna be, Bail, he can move out

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Speaker 1: and I just move on with my life. I ain't

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Speaker 1: know y'all standing together, he swore, Bill, He swattered, he

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Speaker 1: stopped messing with her. I was still skeptical. Oh so

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Speaker 1: you think all of a sudden, he don't lie. He

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Speaker 1: achieve y'all in the old relationship. But lying is out

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Speaker 1: the question. What Wait a minute, he ain't posed to lie.

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Speaker 1: He can spread itself all around town. He just can't lie.

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Speaker 1: He swattered, he stopped messing with her. I'm still skeptical. Bell.

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Speaker 1: So I started seeing the guy I met in my jail.

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Speaker 1: I've never done anything behind my man's back, so this

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Speaker 1: was you and excitement. The sex with the guy was amazed,

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Speaker 1: and he started wanting to see more and more. Bell.

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Speaker 1: So I started making up lie after lie to sneak

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Speaker 1: out with him. You was just a pall that your

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Speaker 1: man would lie. But yall can sleep around, screw anybody

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Speaker 1: you want to screw, and then when you lie about it. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's what I finally told the guy that I was

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Speaker 1: in the open relationship and couldn't totally commit to him. Bell.

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Speaker 1: Then I admitted to my boyfriend that I was sneaking

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Speaker 1: around Bell. He said he was still you'll seeing the

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Speaker 1: white girl. Bail. He told me I had to leave

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Speaker 1: my side piece alone. Bill. I told him, if he

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Speaker 1: could have two, then I want to too. Bill. He

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Speaker 1: told me I can't do what he does, and he

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Speaker 1: threatened to break up with me. Wait a minute, break up? What? Yeah, Bail,

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Speaker 1: I really love my boyfriend? Oh my god? Whatever, there's

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Speaker 1: no love in they say love way reading. I know, Bill,

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Speaker 1: but I don't feel value. Wait a minute. Oh, you

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Speaker 1: won't value. Now you're passing yourself around like potato chips,

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Speaker 1: but you won't. You LAIDs can't just eat one. But

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Speaker 1: now you want to be valued? Yo? Man, No, you're

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Speaker 1: passing your tail out all around town. Now you want value?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Bail? Am I stupid for being

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Speaker 1: in this open lifestyle? No? I just thank you stupid? Period?

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Speaker 1: What what was this letter about? How do you come

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Speaker 1: to me and Shirley and go? Am I stupid for

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Speaker 1: being in this open lifestyle? High is working out for you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But Steve one more thing. Stop writing us if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do wrong and then at the end want me

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Speaker 1: and Shirley to make it right. So what was you

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Speaker 1: gonna ask me? I was gonna ask you when when

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Speaker 1: he when he told her he was still seeing the

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Speaker 1: white girl and she was so hurt. Yeah, what is

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Speaker 1: you hurtful? What ain't you got the man at the jail? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Am I stupid? Yes? Write us no mo All right? Listen,

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