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Speaker 1: Buggle up, hold on tight, regret it for you here.

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Speaker 1: It is a Strawberry letter subject Something ain't right with

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Speaker 1: my fiance and his BFF. Dear Stephen Shirley. I reconnected

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Speaker 1: with an old high school flame in January, and we

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Speaker 1: got engaged a couple of weeks ago. Well before he

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Speaker 1: asked me to marry him, he told me about his

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Speaker 1: female best friend. He told me that he had sex

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Speaker 1: with his best friend years ago, but they didn't have

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Speaker 1: any romantic feelings whatsoever for each other. Now, of course,

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Speaker 1: I was very uncomfortable with their friendship, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: stress about it because I overheard him telling her how

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Speaker 1: much he loved me and that I'm the one. This

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Speaker 1: past weekend, my fiance invited his best friend to lunch

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Speaker 1: so I could meet her. Lunch was going great. We

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Speaker 1: were talking and laughing, but then the best friend just

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Speaker 1: got quiet. I looked over at this heffa and she

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Speaker 1: was sitting there crying. My fiance asked her what was wrong,

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Speaker 1: and she said, she feels like he is going to

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Speaker 1: forget about her when he marries me. My fiance has

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Speaker 1: a nerve to tell her that that would never happen.

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Speaker 1: She stood up and told him that their friendship was over,

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Speaker 1: and she stormed out of the restaurant. My fiance and

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Speaker 1: I sat in silence for the rest of the meal.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't talked to this woman for a couple of

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Speaker 1: days now, and I can tell it's bothering him something.

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Speaker 1: I'm right here. Why is my fiance stressing about another woman?

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Speaker 1: Can men really have female best friends they're not attracted to? Wow?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you know, in some parts of

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Speaker 1: the world that can be the case, But um, you

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Speaker 1: know I have if I'm honest with you, every male

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Speaker 1: male friend, quote unquote friend that I've had in my life,

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Speaker 1: there has been some sort of something going on. You know.

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Speaker 1: You could tell, Yeah, I mean you could. You could

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Speaker 1: tell that they liked you, or you could tell that

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Speaker 1: you know something, there was some sexual tension going on there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we acted on it, but you know,

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Speaker 1: a male female of that dynamic, Yeah, you could tell that.

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Speaker 1: Stupid such an harassment case. What a stupid because you

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Speaker 1: might say something else ignorant, right, But far be it

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Speaker 1: from me to argue with your intuition. If you're already

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Speaker 1: feeling something isn't right, then it probably isn't. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: they've been intimate in the past, but as your friend

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Speaker 1: told you, he no longer has romantic feelings for his

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Speaker 1: best friend. But this is I think where your intuition

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Speaker 1: is really on point. I think the best friend has

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Speaker 1: some unresolved issues, as she displayed at lunch. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if she didn't wasn't emotionally connected or tied to him still,

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Speaker 1: why would she storm out? Why would she be crying.

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Speaker 1: There's something going on with her, And I think that

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Speaker 1: she's jealous of your relationship and she probably wishes that

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Speaker 1: it were her, and she does feel left out and

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Speaker 1: she does want him so um and he may feel

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Speaker 1: some kind of way too because it's bothering him. So

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Speaker 1: before you decide to walk down the aisle with him

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Speaker 1: and set a date and do all of those things,

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Speaker 1: you guys need to get this together. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's going to be that easy because his

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Speaker 1: best friend has some serious issues and if if he's

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Speaker 1: bothered by it, he may have some unresolved feelings that

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Speaker 1: he's not acknowledging or telling you about. Steve. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you Shirley for that warm, fuzzy rendition of a letter.

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Speaker 1: You're so welcome, na here, come to ignorance. Let's just

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Speaker 1: go and get it. We really hell going on here,

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Speaker 1: So may write by my fiance and his bf L.

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Speaker 1: We have renamed BL to big Fat Freak. Oh right here, collar,

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Speaker 1: Something ain't right with my fear, his big free that's

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Speaker 1: just b FL. Any day is happening him? I reconnected

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Speaker 1: with an old high school flame in January. We were

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Speaker 1: engaged a couple of weeks ago. Oh that's quick. January, Mabel, yeah, bam,

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Speaker 1: all the crack January February, March, that ninety day went

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Speaker 1: out the window. Okay, cool? He told you about this

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Speaker 1: female friend he gout. That's his b FL, who would

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Speaker 1: be referred to from now on in this letter as

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Speaker 1: BFF the Big Fat Free. He told me he had

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Speaker 1: sex with his best friend years ago, but they don't

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Speaker 1: have any romantic feelings whatsoever for each other. You ain't

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Speaker 1: got to have romantic feelings to have sex. That's not

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Speaker 1: a requirement romantic feelings to have sex, what y'all? You

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Speaker 1: just lady, You ain't that old because you're hooked up

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Speaker 1: right after high school old high school flame. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how y'all anyway, they're pretty, they're young. I was saying,

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Speaker 1: of course, I was very uncomfortable with their friendship, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't stress about it because I heard him on

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Speaker 1: the phone telling him how much he loved me and

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Speaker 1: that I'm the one. Wasn't nobody on the other end.

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Speaker 1: H You heard him on the phone, but she wasn't

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Speaker 1: on the phone. See, I know, I didn't think this

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Speaker 1: is a good game. Here. Let me tell you how

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Speaker 1: much I love her, and she is the one. She

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Speaker 1: had been home on. You got fair a line, lady,

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Speaker 1: we come back. I'll tell you the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Some ain't right with my fiance and his bf L,

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Speaker 1: which is referred to her as the big fat free

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Speaker 1: all right now. They told me they had sex when

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Speaker 1: they were best friends, but they don't have romantic feelings whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: You ain't gotta have feelings to have sex here, bought.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I was uncomfortable, and I didn't see see

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Speaker 1: stress about it because I overheard him telling her how

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Speaker 1: much he loves me and that I'm the one. She

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Speaker 1: had already hung up. The only person got that message. Wishie.

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Speaker 1: That's funny he had hung up. Wow, See I know

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Speaker 1: how this go right? This past weekend, My fields Say

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Speaker 1: invited his best friend into lunch so I could meet up.

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Speaker 1: Lunch was going gray. We was talking and laughing, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but then the best friend got quiet. I looked over

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Speaker 1: this hell fuck and she was sitting there crying. What

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Speaker 1: happened the only laughing? What ain't remember that time we

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Speaker 1: do that? Girl? You pray that what? Let just have

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Speaker 1: to start crying? Yeah, because she couldn't hold up the

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Speaker 1: lie no more. See, she wasn't on the phone when

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Speaker 1: he told her you was the one we're talking and laughing.

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Speaker 1: My fielance Say asked her what was wrong. She says,

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Speaker 1: she feels like she forgot he was going to forget

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Speaker 1: about her when he marries me. My fields had to

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Speaker 1: never to tell her that that would never happen. What, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's why ain't no more laughing. See, I'm look at

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Speaker 1: what happened to all that laughing? Daddy your feelings? They

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Speaker 1: told her. She stood up and told him their friendship

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Speaker 1: was over, and she stormed out the restaurant. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: my fiance saying, I said that in silence for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the meal. Now he ain't talking to you

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Speaker 1: because he trying to get himself together. When a man

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Speaker 1: sitting in silence. His brain ain't silad, it was a

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Speaker 1: riot going on in his head. The German shepherds was loose,

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Speaker 1: and four people had fire hoses, and he was only

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Speaker 1: black against the wall at the chriskis he ain't talked

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Speaker 1: to this woman for a couple of days now, and

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Speaker 1: I can tell is bothering him? Something ain't right here?

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Speaker 1: Why is my fiance stressing about another woman? Because she

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Speaker 1: the other woman? This ain't another woman? This the other woman?

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Speaker 1: Can men really have female best friends that they're not

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Speaker 1: attracted to? The answer to that is if they ain't attractive.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me read this question. I said for you, kid,

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Speaker 1: Can men really have female best friends they're not attracted to? Yes,

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Speaker 1: if they're not attractive. Now, was to be f F

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Speaker 1: really a big fat freak? Or was to be a

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Speaker 1: big fan freak? M? Yeah, see, that's what you need

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Speaker 1: to ask yourself. Was to be f F really a

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Speaker 1: big fat freak? Or was to be a big fan freak?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna see that what I'm gonna go with right there.

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Speaker 1: That's why he said in silence, because he watched her

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Speaker 1: walk out the dough. Now she full figured, though all

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Speaker 1: but she got it all right, she a curved model.

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Speaker 1: Or when she walked out that dough and he saw

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Speaker 1: it moving under that dress. Yeah, ha ha ha, he

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Speaker 1: see high work. I'm just trying to show y'all high work.

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Speaker 1: She started crying because she won't mote she had and

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Speaker 1: she had allowed him to see more, and he gave

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Speaker 1: her more. She was hoping to be mo man. Yes,

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Speaker 1: now that she go after dough and what fault because

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Speaker 1: you don't bought this up in here telling you gonna

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Speaker 1: give her the more that I had before. Ye huh,

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Speaker 1: that's all this was playing. Well, it's not gonna happen now,

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Speaker 1: is it. Yep, it's still gonna happen now, nobody again

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Speaker 1: up friend, Yeah, because the friend gonna get over it

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Speaker 1: because he gonna tell her she don't really mean that

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Speaker 1: much to me. She'll just get another. But I got

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Speaker 1: to marry her cause she's sick. Just let me marry her, right,

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Speaker 1: coming up in ten minutes. She's sick, she got a

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Speaker 1: terminal illness, and I'm gonna marry her so she can

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Speaker 1: have it. That's her wish. Oh my god, Now I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what to do, Okay, Steve, we gotta get

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Speaker 1: out of here. You know that you can email us

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Speaker 1: or instagram us her thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter at

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Speaker 1: my Girl Shirley and We'll be back. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: say Morning show