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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject take your time, young man. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty two year old single woman

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Speaker 1: and I was in a ten year relationship with my

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Speaker 1: and my man broke up with me and then he

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Speaker 1: married someone else six months later. I was devastated and

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Speaker 1: I became a serial dater. Then I met a younger

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Speaker 1: man and decided to settle down. He's thirty, but mature

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Speaker 1: for his age. The only problem that I have is

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Speaker 1: that he tries to take the lead in our relationship

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Speaker 1: and I try not to flex on him, but I

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Speaker 1: always have to show him whose boss. He is also

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Speaker 1: inferior to me in the bedroom, and it's hard for

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Speaker 1: me to coach him without him getting offended. He needs

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Speaker 1: to slow down and pay attention to what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: When I told him that he needs to slow down,

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Speaker 1: he told me that I need to concentrate. That won't

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Speaker 1: even matter because the whole ordeal doesn't last long. He

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Speaker 1: got mad at me the other night because I left

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Speaker 1: out of the bedroom after we had sex, and I

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Speaker 1: slept on the couch and finished the job myself. The

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Speaker 1: next morning, he facetimed his dad and I heard his

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Speaker 1: dad tell him, take your time, young man. I was

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Speaker 1: outraged that he would tell his dad about our sex life.

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Speaker 1: So now we're both offended, and it's his fault because

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to go nice and slow.

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Speaker 2: How could he possibly.

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Speaker 1: Get mad when I give him constructive criticism. I cannot

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Speaker 1: waste time on another man that doesn't listen. What should

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Speaker 1: I do? Everyone doesn't like constructive criticism, ma'am, and no

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Speaker 1: one likes it during sex, no one. Okay, that is

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Speaker 1: not the time to point out someone's mistakes or whatever.

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Speaker 1: All right, I don't even understand why you're with this guy.

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Speaker 1: You don't even like him. According to you, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: do anything right. He doesn't do anything right, nothing, from

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Speaker 1: his ability to lead all the way down to his

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Speaker 1: love making you have a problem. You say he's mature

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Speaker 1: for his age, but then you say you always have

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Speaker 1: to show him whose boss? And what does that mean anyway?

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Speaker 1: I mean you say you have to coach him in

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Speaker 1: the bedroom. He needs to slow down, it doesn't last

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Speaker 1: long enough, and on and on. You have nothing but

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Speaker 1: complaints about this young man who's twelve years younger than you. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: discussing his sex life with his dad. Maybe a little weird.

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Speaker 1: But his dad did tell him to take his time,

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Speaker 1: which is what you want the young man to do. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're mad about that? Make up your mind? What do

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Speaker 1: you want? What do you want? Ma'am?

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Speaker 2: See, I don't have any advice for her.

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Speaker 1: Just make up your mind.

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Speaker 3: Well, I ain't got no advice, but I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 3: her the reason why her life going like this.

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Speaker 2: If you farty two, if you're a party.

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Speaker 3: Two year old single woman, you in a ten year relationship,

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Speaker 3: your man broke up with you and then married somebody

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Speaker 3: else six months later, I could assure you a good

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Speaker 3: part of that ten year relationship you.

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Speaker 2: Was in he was in something else too.

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Speaker 3: That's obvious because six months after y'all broke up, he

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Speaker 3: was married. Now I was devastated, and your response to

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Speaker 2: You became a serial day.

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Speaker 3: You just dating everybody because you want somebody to prove

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Speaker 3: to you and show you that you are still desirable.

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Speaker 3: And so you just went out with everybody. And now

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Speaker 3: you met this younger man. Now you steal dating so hard,

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Speaker 3: you going twelve years under. I'm devastated. He's thirty and

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Speaker 3: you met this younger man.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, saiton, baby.

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Speaker 3: Loud, and you met this younger man, you decided to

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Speaker 2: He's thirty, but he's mature.

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Speaker 3: For his age. That's what she's saying. Now keep that

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Speaker 3: in mind because this is important information. The only problem

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Speaker 3: he tries to take the.

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Speaker 2: Reliad in our relationship. Why would he try to do that?

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Speaker 3: And I try not to flex on him, but I

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Speaker 3: always got to show him who's the boss. So now

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Speaker 3: you're dating this little dude that you say is so

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Speaker 3: mature but you don't want hear.

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Speaker 2: I'm leading, and you got to.

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Speaker 3: Flex on him to show him who boss. Well that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: So now exactly how mature is he?

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 3: Because you said he's very mature, but you got to

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Speaker 3: flex on him, show him who boss. Maybe you don't

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Speaker 3: need to be a relationship. That could be it. I

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Speaker 3: don't know where you're going with this, but I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: that's more like it. Then here go to other problems.

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Speaker 3: He is also inferior to me in the bedroom.

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Speaker 2: Now that's you forty two, the boy thirty.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got twelve years on him. Now you don't

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Speaker 3: want nobody telling you nothing, so you flex on him

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Speaker 3: to show him who boss. But now let's talk about this.

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Speaker 3: We have way more experienced than him. Well we come back.

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Speaker 3: You might discover that you just way too much. You

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Speaker 3: thought about that. They may be just way too much,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know.

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Speaker 1: All right, hang on, Steve, we'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the

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Speaker 1: hour of today's Strawberry letter. Subject take your time, young man.

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Speaker 2: Right after this, you're listening.

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Speaker 1: Hard morning show. All right, come on, Steve, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letter. The subject is take your time, young man.

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Speaker 3: Forty two year old lady was in a ten year

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Speaker 3: relationship with a man. They broke up. Six months after

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Speaker 3: they broke up, this man married somebody. She was devastated.

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Speaker 3: She became a serial data, meaning she wants to go

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Speaker 3: out and prove that she's still desired. She's dating a

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Speaker 3: who's thirty, twelve years younger than um decided to settle down.

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Speaker 2: He's thirty, but he's mature for his age.

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Speaker 3: The only problem is she say, he tried to take

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Speaker 3: the lead in the relationship, and she tried not to

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Speaker 3: flex on him, but she always got to show him

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Speaker 3: who the boss. Well, now you done dated this boy

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Speaker 3: and now you want him to be beholden to you

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Speaker 3: and under you. But you just said he was mature

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Speaker 3: a minute ago, so when he tried to take the lead,

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Speaker 3: you got to flex on him and show him who

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Speaker 3: the ball. All right, cool, So you know what this

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Speaker 3: is already. I don't know why you're trying to turn

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Speaker 3: this into something that it ain't. With good luck, let's go. Now,

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Speaker 3: here's the other problem. He is inferior to me in

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Speaker 3: the bed. Well, you forty two, he thirty. You've obviously

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Speaker 3: been using your forty two years to the best of

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Speaker 3: your ability, and then so you've also been using your

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Speaker 3: forty two two years to experience, experiment, explore, and indulge

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Speaker 3: into things that this boy ain't seen yet. So here

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Speaker 3: is school right now. Every time y'all go to bed,

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Speaker 3: this class time. All right, kids, get your pencils, let's

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Speaker 3: get your notes out.

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Speaker 2: It's time to go on in here. See what you

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Speaker 2: learned from yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 3: And it's hard for me to coach here without him

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Speaker 3: getting offended.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now. You probably wait till

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Speaker 2: the coach.

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Speaker 3: You need to wait to the coach, and when it

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Speaker 3: ain't in the middle of it, you gotta hey, listen

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Speaker 3: tomorrow and we do this well. I really like when

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Speaker 3: you do this. If you could do more of that,

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Speaker 3: you might have to go in like this. When you

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Speaker 3: do going that wrong, stop, don't do that.

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Speaker 2: Don't do that? What is that? Okay? Okay, so what

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Speaker 2: you think that's doing a right?

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Speaker 3: Don't nobody want boy boy? Come on now, won't stop

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Speaker 3: all that hard breathing. You ain't got to do that.

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Speaker 3: You ain't doing nothing. You ain't doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 3: He don't like that. When I told him that he

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Speaker 3: needs to slow down, he told me, I need to concentrate.

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Speaker 3: You're going too fast. It's going too fast, and it's over.

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Speaker 3: He told you you need to concentrate your last needs

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Speaker 3: to put some focus on because it's taking you too

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Speaker 3: damn long. That don't even matter because the whole ordeal

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Speaker 3: don't even last that long. Well, you just said he

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Speaker 3: he FaceTime his dad and I heard his dad tell him,

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Speaker 3: take your time, young man. Now that's all you heard. See,

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Speaker 3: you just heard that, take your time, young man. I

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Speaker 3: was outraged, and he would tell his dad about our

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Speaker 3: to know him better. You never know, but you assuming

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Speaker 3: they talk about sex because you're in charge yourself. So

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Speaker 3: we were both so now we're both offended. And it's

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Speaker 3: his fault because he don't know how to go nice

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Speaker 3: and slow. Well that's what he doing at thirty. He

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Speaker 3: ain't learned to take his time yet. But you have,

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Speaker 3: you know why, because you everything, you all of that,

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Speaker 3: You got all this know how in experience.

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Speaker 2: Let me get to the end of this letter.

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Speaker 3: How could it possibly get mad when I give him

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Speaker 3: constructive criticism because don't nobody.

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Speaker 2: Like the way you're telling it.

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Speaker 3: I cannot waste time on another man that doesn't listen.

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Speaker 2: What should I do?

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Speaker 3: Well, Boss lady, Yeah, big boss, big by yourself.

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Speaker 2: Boss, the big b B. You buy yourself?

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Speaker 3: Boss, You so busy, bossy, you don't want another man

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Speaker 3: that don't listen. Seem to me like you don't know nothing,

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Speaker 3: because everything you're telling everybody about how to coach you,

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Speaker 3: how to do better things and make.

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Speaker 2: You feel good.

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Speaker 3: See you, you need somebody to make you feel a

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Speaker 3: certain way, and you don't even know how to make

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Speaker 3: all the wrong places. Now you can find us a

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Speaker 3: thirty year old boy to replace your for the chier

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Speaker 3: old man who look at That's why you buy yourself

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Speaker 3: because you too much. You're bossy, You think you know everything.

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Speaker 3: You don't want nobody telling you nothing. That's why your

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Speaker 3: other man left you got married to the other woman.

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Speaker 3: You ever cross your mind like that with a dead mind,

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Speaker 3: And I'm glad you wrote it. So now let's get

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Speaker 3: this out The way right here, you too much bad

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Speaker 3: down all this experience you keep bringing in the bedroom

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Speaker 3: and everybody, everybody don't know all that right here and

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Speaker 3: here with all this crazy mess you want to hear

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Speaker 3: brand what a candle wax?

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Speaker 2: Don't mind? Know what I don't do, candle Wax?

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Speaker 3: What you asking me for about you?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't want know candle wax. And I don't

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Speaker 3: want to be here now. I don't know how to

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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 1: But what is she telling them though?

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Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, stop stop what you're doing. I can't

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