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Speaker 1: Thank you nephew. Subject he needs to freshen up everything.

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Speaker 1: Dear Uncle Steve and Aunt Shirley. I'm twenty eight years

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Speaker 1: old and dating a man that is five years older

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Speaker 1: than I am. We've been together for eight months and

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Speaker 1: he's someone I can see myself settling down with. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't have any children, so that's a plus for me.

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Speaker 1: The only issue we have is that he has sex

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Speaker 1: with other ladies. He told me that even though he

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Speaker 1: spends his time and money. He said, he doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to cheat on me, so he's just getting some things

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Speaker 1: out of the way before he settles down. We talk

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Speaker 1: be married before he's forty. I need to know if

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Speaker 1: I should give the relationship more time or if I'm

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Speaker 1: wasting my time. See, I've stayed at his house and

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Speaker 1: I can tell another female has been in his bed.

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Speaker 1: I can tell a female has been wrapped up in

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Speaker 1: the blanket on his couch. I have even seen dirty

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Speaker 1: towels with makeup on them. I have told him that

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Speaker 1: he should freshen up before I come over, but I

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Speaker 1: guess he doesn't have the time. He acts like it's

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Speaker 1: no big deal, but it does matter to me. I

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Speaker 1: feel like I don't have a choice but to share

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Speaker 1: him with other women. But it makes me feel dirty

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Speaker 1: because an older lady told me about soul ties and

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Speaker 1: supposedly every time I sleep with him, I get tied

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Speaker 1: to the souls of all the women he slept with,

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Speaker 1: or something like that. I want to be in a

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Speaker 1: monion's relationship, and I do not plan to share him forever.

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Speaker 1: He gave me the key and the code to his alarm.

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Speaker 1: So what's really going on with him? Is he serious

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Speaker 1: about me? Come on, now, some of this stuff you

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Speaker 1: know isn't right. Okay, he's seeing other women for starters?

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Speaker 1: You say, the only issue that you have with him

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Speaker 1: is that he has sex with other ladies. What this

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Speaker 1: is a major major issue because it's not what you

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Speaker 1: want and you're not happy. Why are you even considering

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Speaker 1: being with this man? I mean, you're twenty eight. You

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Speaker 1: say he's five years older than you. So he's thirty three,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to get married before he's forty. So

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Speaker 1: between now right now today and forty years old some

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Speaker 1: time in between there he'll still be with you. But

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Speaker 1: sleeping around with other women, I mean, makes this make

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Speaker 1: sense because he said he wants to get it all

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Speaker 1: out before he settles down. No, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: read with any of this. The soul ties all that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that, But you don't have

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Speaker 1: to deal with this. You do have a choice in

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Speaker 1: this matter. If you don't want to share him, tell

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Speaker 1: him that and get out. You said you want to

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Speaker 1: be in a monogamous relationship. Well this is not what

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Speaker 1: you're in. Plus his house is dirty and nasty.

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Speaker 2: Ew Steve, all right, all right, they listen to me again.

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Speaker 2: Here is the new norm that we are being forced

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Speaker 2: to accept with our line of thinking. That makes sense

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Speaker 2: for us to give you some foundation. You're twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: you're dating a man that's five years old, and you

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Speaker 2: that's thirty three. Y'all been together eight months, and he's

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Speaker 2: someone I could see myself settling down with. Now, this

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Speaker 2: statement right here, this is someone I could see myself

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Speaker 2: settling down with. I'm gonna read the letter back to you.

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Speaker 2: I don't want you to tell me how how you

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Speaker 2: see something here, because I'm struggling. I'm struggling for you.

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Speaker 2: You can see yourself selling down with him. He don't

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Speaker 2: have any children, so that's a plus for me. Okay.

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Speaker 2: The only issue, y'all listening, The only issue is that

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Speaker 2: he has sex with other ladies. I beat, damn, only

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Speaker 2: I be damn. That's the only issue, you know. The

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Speaker 2: only issue is he ain't worth it. The only issue

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Speaker 2: is he domestice is credit up. The only issue is

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Speaker 2: he just got a divorce. The only issue is he

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Speaker 2: doesn't have a real solid plan. He told me that

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Speaker 2: even though he has sex with other women, I'm the

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Speaker 2: only one he spends his time and money on. Little girl,

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Speaker 2: listen to me. All sex costs time and money, all

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Speaker 2: of it. Even though he has sex with other women,

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Speaker 2: I'm the only one he spends his time and money on.

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Speaker 2: He gotta be all one of them to have sex.

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Speaker 1: One more time.

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Speaker 2: He told me that, even though he has sex with

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Speaker 2: other women, I'm the only one he spends his time

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Speaker 2: and money on. To have sex. He got to be

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Speaker 2: on one of them other women. Okay, And to get

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Speaker 2: and some money. Ain't no sex free. So now that's

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Speaker 2: not a true statement. He said, he doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: cheat on me, so he's just getting some things out

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Speaker 2: the way before he settled down. He don't want to

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Speaker 2: cheat on you.

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Speaker 1: What do you think he's doing?

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Speaker 2: What? I don't understand. What is this that you see

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Speaker 2: in settling down with He told me he don't want

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Speaker 2: to cheat on you, but he doing it anyway. He

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Speaker 2: just ain't got your stupid behind to think that if

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Speaker 2: I tell you I'm seeing these people, it ain't cheating. Well,

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Speaker 2: then it's not because you are complicit. You are having

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Speaker 2: a consensual sexual relationship with a man that's involved with

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Speaker 2: other women, and you okay with that. Well, if you

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Speaker 2: okay with it, he real good with it. Man.

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

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Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after today's

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Speaker 1: Strawberry letter, subject he needs to freshen up everything. We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into it right after this. You're listening Morning show,

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Speaker 1: All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject he needs to freshen up every thing.

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Speaker 2: Dear uncle Steven, un Shirley. I'm twenty eight. I'm dating

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Speaker 2: a man five years old than me. He thirty three.

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Speaker 2: We've been together eight months and you can see yourself

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Speaker 2: settling down with him. He don't have no children. That's

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Speaker 2: a plus. The only issue, and he'll go to, issue

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Speaker 2: we have, is that he has sex with other ladies.

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Speaker 2: That's not an issue, like I told you. An issue

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Speaker 2: is he lost his job. An issue is his card

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Speaker 2: broke down. His issue is he messed his credit up.

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Speaker 2: His issue is he was recently divorced. Them is issues.

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Speaker 2: He done brought a whole nother lifestyle in here to you,

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Speaker 2: and you'd a bit long with it. He told me

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Speaker 2: that even though he has sex with other women, I'm

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Speaker 2: the only one he spends his time and money on.

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Speaker 2: How can that be true? It takes time and money

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Speaker 2: to have sex, that's a fact. He says, he don't

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Speaker 2: want to cheat on me, so he's getting some things

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Speaker 2: out the way before he settles down. Before he settled down.

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Speaker 2: When the man told you he want to be married

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Speaker 2: by the time he fought it, that's seven years. That's

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Speaker 2: a lot of time to swing and slang. Lady, we

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Speaker 2: talked about marriage and having children together, and he wants

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Speaker 2: to be married before he forty. Did you hear what

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Speaker 2: he just told you? I want to be married before

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Speaker 2: I'm forty. He done created a seven year window that

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Speaker 2: he can play with you. Keep you on the strain,

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Speaker 2: waiting on forty. I need to know if I should

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Speaker 2: give the relationship more time, if I'm wasting your time,

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Speaker 2: or if I'm wasting my time. Okay, but let me

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Speaker 2: read a little bit more fake. See, I've stayed at

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Speaker 2: his house and I can tell another female has been

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Speaker 2: in his bed. You ain't got to tell, he told you. Wow,

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Speaker 2: you ain't got to tell. He ain't. I could tell

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Speaker 2: the females been wrapped up in the blanket on his couch. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he ain't even move a blanket. I've seen dirty times

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Speaker 2: with makeup on him. He ain't even putting them in

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Speaker 2: the Washington shit. I have told him that he should

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Speaker 2: freshen up before I come over, but I guess he

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Speaker 2: don't have the time. No, lady, it ain't the time.

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Speaker 2: He don't care. He'd have told you what he doing.

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Speaker 2: And you have complied and are complicit with it. You

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Speaker 2: are what's called an accessory, an accomplice. There's a crime

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Speaker 2: being committed, and you're an accessory and accomplished to the crime,

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Speaker 2: and you okay with it. You see the evidence, the

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Speaker 2: blanket on the couch, the makeup on the tiels that

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Speaker 2: stupid self up in there, thinking you won't spend your

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Speaker 2: life with this man. He acts like it's no big deal,

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Speaker 2: but it does matter to me, and he don't give

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Speaker 2: a damn. I feel like I don't have a choice

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Speaker 2: but to share him. What What What made you say that?

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Speaker 2: What made you say you feel like you don't have

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Speaker 2: a choice. You can stop this right away if you

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Speaker 2: get off being stuck on stupid. You have nothing, Nothing

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Speaker 2: belongs to you. He's giving you nothing. He's given you

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Speaker 2: no commitment, he's given you no promises. Y'all having false talks.

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Speaker 2: I won't get married by time. I'm forty thirty three,

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Speaker 2: wow the other women. But it makes me feel dirty

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Speaker 2: because here we go and older woman told me about

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Speaker 2: soul tithes and supposedly every time I sleep with him,

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Speaker 2: I get tied to the souls of all the women

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Speaker 2: he slept with or something like that. Where you get

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Speaker 2: this ignorant ass voody from what isnbody? God? This is

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Speaker 2: the only thing you know this show? Takeaway some old

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Speaker 2: ass woman that told you you having soul ties, that

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Speaker 2: the souls in these other worlds? What raggedy ass voodoo

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Speaker 2: mess is this? This Mississippi Louise Ina caging hill billy

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Speaker 2: ass mess. Lady girl, All bye. I want to be

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Speaker 2: in a monogamous relationship, but you not. In order to

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Speaker 2: a man that's willing to be monogamous you and a

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Speaker 2: man who's telling you he's cheating. He gave me and

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Speaker 2: a key and a cold to his alarm, so what's

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Speaker 2: He gave you the key and the cold to his alarm,

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Speaker 2: so he ain't got to go down there and open

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Speaker 2: the door when you come in. That's all that is

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Speaker 2: he gave you, gave you the key and the cold,

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Speaker 2: so he ain't got to go down there. But you

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Speaker 2: can't go over there when you want to. Now you

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Speaker 2: got to call for you come back. I promise you.

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Speaker 2: Just when you come by, let me know you're coming,

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Speaker 2: and then he'll tell you whether to come or not.

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Speaker 2: And then when you do come, you got the key

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Speaker 2: in the cold because he ain't going down and letting

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Speaker 2: you in. Now, let me ask you something else. Here's

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Speaker 2: your other problem. I feel like I have no choice,

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Speaker 2: but it makes me feel dirty. Suppose every time I

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Speaker 2: sleep in the one that said now, listen to me.

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Speaker 2: This is all the stuff he's told you. But what

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Speaker 2: you need to be concerned about is what is he

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Speaker 2: said this several times before and his work, and that's

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Speaker 2: why he doing it. He'd have told somebody else got

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Speaker 2: a key in a cold too, somebody else have been

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Speaker 2: and somebody else using a towel. Little girl, if you

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Speaker 2: find yourself something else to do, because your hope is

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