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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: We got it for you here. It is a Strawberry

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Speaker 1: Letter subject. I'm ready for a family, but she's not.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm twenty seven years old and I

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Speaker 1: have my degree in business management with aspirations of owning

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Speaker 1: to fulfill my goals. I've been dating a woman for

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Speaker 1: a few months and she was everything I asked God for.

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Speaker 1: She's a go getter with a lot of ambition and

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Speaker 1: a backbone. She's not a pushover by any means, and

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Speaker 1: she has a foul mouth when I make her mad.

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Speaker 1: We met in college and I pledged Omega Steve. After

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Speaker 1: we've been for a few months, after I crossed over,

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Speaker 1: women came from everywhere trying to get at me, and

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Speaker 1: I messed up and cheated on my girlfriend. She broke

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Speaker 1: up with me and kept it moving. I begged and begged,

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Speaker 1: but she was done. Five years passed and I was

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Speaker 1: still crazy about her, so I called her to see

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Speaker 1: how she was doing. It was a great call and

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Speaker 1: she was single, so I asked her out. She told

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Speaker 1: me that I must be intentional with her because she

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Speaker 1: only dates to work towards marriage. I was honest and

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Speaker 1: told her that I wasn't ready to get married just yet,

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Speaker 1: but I swore to her that she is my future wife.

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Speaker 1: We made a mistake and she got pregnant five months later.

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Speaker 1: Then she started pressuring me to get married. I was

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Speaker 1: honest again and told her I wasn't financially ready for marriage,

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Speaker 1: but I promised to give her the wedding of her

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Speaker 1: dream soon. She said she needed some time alone, and

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Speaker 1: I gave her a few days. We went to dinner

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Speaker 1: a week later and she told me she had terminated

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Speaker 1: her pregnancy, and then she broke up with me. I

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Speaker 1: was upset that she made this decision about the baby

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Speaker 1: without me, but I want her back in my life.

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Speaker 1: Where did I go wrong this time? How do I

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Speaker 1: get her back for good? WHOA this is a lot,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot in this letter from beginning to end.

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Speaker 1: And you guys are so young to have gone through

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Speaker 1: all of this. I mean, the one thing that you

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Speaker 1: all along the way. You told her you weren't ready

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Speaker 1: for marriage, you told her you weren't financially ready for marriage.

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Speaker 1: All of that, you've been honest. She, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: no time for games. And I agree with you. She

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Speaker 1: is not a pushover. She knows what she wants. Um.

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Speaker 1: And you said you want her. This is what you said.

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Speaker 1: After what she did, you still want her. That is major,

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Speaker 1: But you still want her, so UM, I say, see

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Speaker 1: if she still wants you, then talk to her, see

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Speaker 1: where her head is. If you guys have matured enough,

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Speaker 1: you know, and have gone through enough to make it

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Speaker 1: you know, you guys got to be honest about your

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Speaker 1: But but that was crazy. We'll see what happens, Steve,

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happened. Yeah, when they talk, they already talk.

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Speaker 1: They had dinner. Shit. A week later, they've talked. I

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Speaker 1: her though. They need to talk some more. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna get to that late on the

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Speaker 1: second half. But the subject says I'm ready for a family,

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Speaker 1: but she's not. Bro. The only problem with this, bro

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Speaker 1: is you. You didn't really say in the letter nowhere

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Speaker 1: how much you've always wanted children and all that. I

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Speaker 1: didn't hear that in the letter. So the subject of

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for a family but she's not, it's throwing

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Speaker 1: you what happened now, dog team, So here we go. Now,

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Speaker 1: you're twenty seven, you got a degree in business management

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Speaker 1: on the right path for fill your dream. Been dating

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Speaker 1: the woman for a few months. She was everything I

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Speaker 1: She got, She got a lot of ambition, backbones. She

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Speaker 1: I'm making man. We met in college. I pledge Omega,

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Speaker 1: which happens to be the greatest fraternity ever created, a

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Speaker 1: known to mankind. Clear your throat all you want. You

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Speaker 1: already know, excuse me, had it on your mind, but

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Speaker 1: you realize the cost. You knew what it was, You

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Speaker 1: You were scared of me that I was gonna do

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Speaker 1: his ass. This is not a fraternity conversation, but just

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Speaker 1: for a minute, you know, don't clear your throat when

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Speaker 1: I say Omega. So anyway, uh, after he crossed, women

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Speaker 1: messed up and cheated on my girlfriend. You know, I

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Speaker 1: felt like this letter was about me and here, but

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Speaker 1: then I had to remember he said he graduated with him. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you you know, I just realized then that took a

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Speaker 1: turn that I didn't quite qualify for after three years

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Speaker 1: of collegue. I had eighteen credits three years. So when

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Speaker 1: I come back, I'll tell you what you did, Rome bro,

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Speaker 1: and what's what's really happened, because there's a mistake you

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Speaker 1: two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour of the subject of today's letter is

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for a family, but she's not. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back right after this. You're listening show, all right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Let's recap today's strawberry letter. Subject I'm ready for a family,

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Speaker 1: but she's not. This young frat brother man twenty seven

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Speaker 1: business on path, got his goals and everything. You know,

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Speaker 1: been dating this woman for a few months. She was

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Speaker 1: everything you ask guy for. Go get her ambition, backbone,

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Speaker 1: ain't no push over all that we met in college

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Speaker 1: when he pleded sci Fi after we had been dating

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Speaker 1: for a few months, and then you crossed. Women came

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Speaker 1: out of everywhere. You know, I know that you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, came out everywhere, you know, just on

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Speaker 1: you know, on us, you know, old us you know huge.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying back back I say back

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Speaker 1: about you. I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be honest with you. I've never beat a woman off

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Speaker 1: in my life ever. Please me. Yeah, I was so

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Speaker 1: thirsty for somebody to want me, Please want me. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Jesus. All right. Anyway, you messed up, you and

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Speaker 1: you cheated on your girlfriend. She broke up with you.

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Speaker 1: She kept moving you beg she was dumb. Now five

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Speaker 1: years went back. He was still crazy about it. So

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Speaker 1: towards marriage. Excellent move on this young lady's part. Excellent

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Speaker 1: move that set the tone. Come to me with intentions.

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Speaker 1: If you want to play games, I ain't got time place. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she did just that. I was honest, told her I

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Speaker 1: you just saying now you ain't ready to get married

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Speaker 1: just yet, but you sware to her she was your

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Speaker 1: future wife. So not dog. What you did was you

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Speaker 1: led her own you gave her a little bit of hope.

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Speaker 1: You dangle and carried out there that you will be

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Speaker 1: my future wife, but not now. So in other words,

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Speaker 1: you were honest, but you also knew what you was doing.

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Speaker 1: I ain't ready now, but I don't want you to leave.

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Speaker 1: Let me get my stuff together, and I understand financially

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Speaker 1: how you feel about that, so I appreciate your honesty.

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Speaker 1: Now here where to let it take a turn. We

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Speaker 1: made a mistake and she got pregnant. What y'all grown,

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Speaker 1: y'all know when you have sex, what sex produces. What

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Speaker 1: you mean, she got pregnant? Unprotected sex. Unprotected sex had

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Speaker 1: I know you know this, so I ain't telling you now,

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Speaker 1: but that's water over the damn. Then she started pressuring

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Speaker 1: I was honest again, and totally you wasn't financially ready

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Speaker 1: of wifey's status. I'm pregnant with your child. You said,

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Speaker 1: So now she terminated the pregnancy. You said, I was

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Speaker 1: Hold out, partner, Hold up, you're making decisions without her

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Speaker 1: throw you officient net. This mistake y'all made. It seems

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Speaker 1: So could it be that that mistake was then used

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Speaker 1: When you said now, she said, we're done. See, so

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Speaker 1: you have to think it out, think about that with him.

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Speaker 1: I was upset she made decision about the babe with me.

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Speaker 1: But I want to back in my life. Where did

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Speaker 1: I go wrong? It's time? How can I get her

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Speaker 1: this woman back. You have to go to her to propose,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose you again for the second time, and

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Speaker 1: I can't see myself without it. So I love you.

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Speaker 1: Let's get engaged. Let's work towards this marriage. Please. I

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Speaker 1: don't ever want you to go again. That's your only shot.

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Speaker 1: That was beautiful, Thank you so much. Coming up next,

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