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Speaker 1: It is Strawsberry Letter, subject the Pastor's Pride and Joy.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm at thirty seven year old single

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Speaker 1: woman and I was engaged but recently ended the relationship

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Speaker 1: with my fiance. Since then, he's tried to get me back,

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Speaker 1: but I can't get past what happened with his secretary. Terry,

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Speaker 1: my Exbionce is a pastor and he is running the

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Speaker 1: church right now because his father has been ill for

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Speaker 1: a while. He's a great pastor and the congregation has

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Speaker 1: grown since he's been in the pulpit. All of a

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Speaker 1: single women in church, young and old, would give me

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Speaker 1: the side eye when they found out I was his Beyonce.

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Speaker 1: I dealt with all of that. What I couldn't deal

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Speaker 1: with is his attraction to his secretary. This younger lady

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Speaker 1: has long red hair, beautiful legs, a great butt, and

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Speaker 1: a beautiful smile. Of course he's attracted tour But what

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Speaker 1: I can understand is why she would want to work

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Speaker 1: at our church Monday through Friday when she could be

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Speaker 1: doing something in her field of real estate. My mind

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Speaker 1: got to play in tricks on me, and then my

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Speaker 1: intuition kicked in. I tried to calm my demons, but

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Speaker 1: two days ago I lost it and I drove up

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Speaker 1: to the church at eight pm. My fiance was in

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Speaker 1: adjacent to his office. He seemed surprised to see me,

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Speaker 1: and he said he had just come by the church

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Speaker 1: to lock up and make sure Miss Secretary got to

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Speaker 1: her car safely. When she came out of the bathroom,

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Speaker 1: her blouse was unbuttoned, so she quickly darted back into

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Speaker 1: I was out of line and I was scaring her.

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Speaker 1: He said, she is the pride and joy of the

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Speaker 1: church because she works for free and they need her.

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Speaker 1: I told this old fool, nothing in life is free,

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Speaker 1: and I dumped him. Are they fooling around? How can

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Speaker 1: he be so naive? Well, a true statement, nothing in

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Speaker 1: life is free. And both of them seemed to be

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Speaker 1: paying for this in some way. And yes, they are

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Speaker 1: fooling around. Okay, you already know this because she came

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Speaker 1: when she saw you. All right, they that had fooling

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Speaker 1: around all over it. Really pay attention anyway, Yeah, my battle,

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Speaker 1: with your own eyes. You ask, how can he be

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Speaker 1: so naive? Well, how can you question what you know

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Speaker 1: is right. He's not naive. He saw how cute she is,

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Speaker 1: just like you and everyone else did. They did it,

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Speaker 1: you know it, and you dumped him because of it.

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Speaker 1: So why are you backtracking like you're getting confused and

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Speaker 1: not sure what happened? He cheated? Don't make excuses for him.

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Speaker 1: You did the right thing. You did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: They've been doing this for a while. She works for free.

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Speaker 1: He said they need her. She's cute, long hair, beautiful legs. Right,

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Speaker 1: but he's at the church. You suspected something you drove

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Speaker 1: in there. You saw it all right, Just move on now,

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Speaker 1: just move on. You already dumped them. Steve completely disagree

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Speaker 1: with everything Shirley has said. This is a shame. This

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Speaker 1: is why churches is falling apart today because members have

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Speaker 1: the mindset of Shirley Strawbuild, always running too far with

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Speaker 1: wrote it, the so called victim quotations subject the pastest

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Speaker 1: pride and joy man can't have nothing. Dear Stephen Sherley,

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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty seven year old single woman and you

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Speaker 1: about to find out why. And I was engaged but

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Speaker 1: what happened with his secretary. So now here's a situation, y'all.

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Speaker 1: My ex fiance is a pastor and he's running the

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Speaker 1: I was his fiance. Right there, you got the apple

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Speaker 1: I dealt with all that. What I couldn't deal with

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Speaker 1: The younger lady has long red hair, beautiful legs, a

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Speaker 1: course he's attracted down. Yes, yes, I'm attracted down. What

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Speaker 1: new edition. They ain't they all being to vote? Never trusts,

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour, The

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Speaker 1: Pastor's Pride and Joy is today's Strawberry letters subject. We'll

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recast today's Strawberry Letter. The subject

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Speaker 1: is the Pastor's Pride and Joy. Right there, the pastor's

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Speaker 1: pride and joy. Like I said that man can't hand none,

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Speaker 1: he can't be prideful or joyful about. Then here comes

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Speaker 1: Somebody always wants man to be miserable and unhappy. But

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Speaker 1: You need to be. You need to be desponded and saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: skip your pride and joy and let me ruin it

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Speaker 1: for you. You You are thirty seven year old single woman.

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Speaker 1: We find in our why because you hinted the relationship

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Speaker 1: This younger lady has long red hair, beautiful lads come on,

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Speaker 1: a man, Yeah, let's let's move on. But what I

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Speaker 1: don't understand why she would want to work in our

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Speaker 1: Sacrifice my mind, the devil, my mind got to play

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Speaker 1: But two days ago I lost it. I drove up

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Speaker 1: his office, not pastor in his office pastor worshiping servings

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Speaker 1: What a man should do. Yeah, when she came out

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you. You scared hub. He said. She

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Speaker 1: tie her down and make her feel I wanted. I

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Speaker 1: told this old fool. Nothing in life is free. It

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Speaker 1: is some things in life that's free. There's a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff that free. Government. Cheese was free, bags

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