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Speaker 1: Subject this old lady has got to go. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm a twenty seven year old woman and I inherit

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Speaker 1: it my great grandmother's house five months ago after she died,

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Speaker 1: and I am having a big problem with my great

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Speaker 1: grandmother's caretaker. She's my great grandmother's closest friend and took

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Speaker 1: care of my great grandmother for years. She's had full

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Speaker 1: access to the house and everything that belonged to my

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Speaker 1: great grandmother, But she fails to realize it's my house

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Speaker 1: now and she has to stop coming and going as

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Speaker 1: she pleases in my house. I noticed her going through

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Speaker 1: my mailbox daily picking out her mail. I kindly asked

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Speaker 1: her to have her mail rerouted to her own house.

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Speaker 1: She called me a selfish bee and told me to

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Speaker 1: mind my manners. I respect my elders, but this is

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Speaker 1: she let herself in because she didn't want to wake

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Speaker 1: me up. She used to take food from my great

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Speaker 1: grandmother and my family let it slide, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: having it. One Saturday, I came downstairs and she was

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Speaker 1: confronted her. She told me that she's been doing her

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Speaker 1: great grandmother is turning in her grave because I'm so evil.

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Speaker 1: She stormed out of my house and later that day

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Speaker 1: I got all of the lots changed. She came over

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Speaker 1: the next day and her key didn't work. She told

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Speaker 1: my mom that I'm disrespectful. My mom said I should

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Speaker 1: consider and let her reconsider and let her do her

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Speaker 1: laundry once a month. I do not want her in

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Speaker 1: my house at all. Am I being mean and unreasonable? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got to get her out. No, you're not being

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Speaker 1: mean and unreasonable. I don't think you are at all.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad you got the locks change, because

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Speaker 1: of course that was going to be the first thing

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Speaker 1: I told you to do. And you're right, it's your

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Speaker 1: house now. If you're a great grandmother, you're Gigi didn't

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Speaker 1: want you to have it. Surely she would have given

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Speaker 1: it to someone else. She wouldn't have left it to

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Speaker 1: you if she wanted her caretaker to continue doing what

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Speaker 1: she's been doing, coming in the house, checking the mail,

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Speaker 1: her mail, you know, getting her mail sent there, stealing

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Speaker 1: the refrigerator, doing her laundry, I'm sure she would have

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Speaker 1: said that too. You know, she would have let you

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Speaker 1: know that the caretaker wants you to be respectful. But then,

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Speaker 1: and of course you should, you said, and you are.

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Speaker 1: I guess you said you're you're respectful of your elders.

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Speaker 1: But she also should be respectful, especially when she's in

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Speaker 1: your house. This is your house, now what about that?

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Speaker 1: Doesn't she understand? I know a lot of times older

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Speaker 1: She doesn't need to do anything there now. Of course,

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Speaker 1: do it nicely and respectfully. You don't need that bad

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Speaker 1: And that was a blessing right there. So, like I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, look, I'm respectful of my eldest I really are.

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Speaker 1: But this is the Strawberry letter, and in this letter

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Speaker 1: you're not my elder, right you a Strawberry letter person.

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Speaker 1: I treat Strawberry letter people different. Sometimes they have to

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Speaker 1: hear it the way it is. First of all, the subject,

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Speaker 1: this old lady has got to go. Changing the subject

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Speaker 1: of the letter to this old ass lady got to go,

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Speaker 1: because that's what we're dealing with right here. This Steve,

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven year old. You had heard at her

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Speaker 1: now you got a big problem with her great grandmother's caretaker.

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Speaker 1: She was her closest friend to call your great grandmother,

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Speaker 1: your great grandmama. But now what depart she don't get

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Speaker 1: is is your house? Now? See you inherited. That means

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Speaker 1: in the wheel somewhere she gave the house to you.

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Speaker 1: She didn't put Mildred's name in now nowhere, Mildred. Mildred

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Speaker 1: ass ain't in there. It didn't leave her a damn thing,

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Speaker 1: didn't leave her, no key, none of it is. So

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Speaker 1: now let me show you something, and she come and

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Speaker 1: go as she pleases in my house. I noticed her

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Speaker 1: kindly asked her to have her rewrite it to her

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Speaker 1: own house. Key word, she has a house. That's why

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Speaker 1: your great grandmama didn't leave it to her. Mildred got

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Speaker 1: a house. Why she coming over here doing laundry and

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Speaker 1: all this? Why you're washing me? She hold on your

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Speaker 1: in a minute. We'll have part two of your response

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letters subject this old lady has got to go,

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Speaker 1: and so do we. We'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Morning show. All right, Steve, come on, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's Strawberry letter subject that old ladies got to go.

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Speaker 1: She got to go. This woman is twenty seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Her great great grandmother, her great grandmother then left her house.

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Speaker 1: But she had a caretaker named Mildrid or Claudine or Sophie,

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Speaker 1: some old ass name, Gladys you know, Harriet, you know,

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Speaker 1: and she took care of her and there was a

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Speaker 1: to the house, well you live in the house now,

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Speaker 1: and she coming and going like she wan't to. You

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Speaker 1: and you asked her to rerite her mail to her

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Speaker 1: house keywords, she got a house. Then she called you

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Speaker 1: a selfish bee. Oh we name called her man, I'm

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Speaker 1: a selfish bee, well, you old one. So where we

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Speaker 1: are you know? I mean? Since we all fit to

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Speaker 1: be up in here? Hold up now, Mildred, I told

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Speaker 1: you I'm respectful of my elder, but this strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: she hire. You gotta start haling. You gotta start handling

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Speaker 1: her like she haling you. You know she told you

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Speaker 1: to mind your manager. You ain't got none. I respect

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Speaker 1: my elves, but this is too much. One morning I

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Speaker 1: she didn't want to wake me. So you're gonna mess up.

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Speaker 1: Wake up. She's gonna be standing over your ass with

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Speaker 1: Butter and milk, make buttermilk. You gotta start acting like

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Speaker 1: buttermilk up in here. You got to get tangy. You

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Speaker 1: gotta start have a little sourness to you. You're handling

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Speaker 1: it too nice now, and then you let it slide.

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Speaker 1: You know your family let it slide. But I ain't

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Speaker 1: having it it. Once said you came downstairs. She was

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Speaker 1: She told me she'd been doing her laundry here wants

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Speaker 1: a month for many years, and her great your great

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Speaker 1: grandma gotta be turning into her grave because I'm so evil. Well,

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Speaker 1: listen to me. If you got a house where your

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Speaker 1: washing machine. Wash your clothes in and sink like old

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Speaker 1: people do, hang your stuff out on the clothes line,

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Speaker 1: cut your over and lay your and lay your flowers

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Speaker 1: You know how that do? Pop people? You know how

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Speaker 1: this go? You know, get your number two wash tub

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Speaker 1: and do your clothes. You can't come over here and

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Speaker 1: you some quarters, get your small box of tied and

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Speaker 1: get the washing. Your stuff down there. And the stuff

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Speaker 1: is old anyway, all them old ass clothes you're bringing

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Speaker 1: over here, big giant bloomers and stuff in here clogging

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Speaker 1: up the laundry machine. You've been trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: looked like look like a swing selling Yeah, talking about

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Speaker 1: and my grandmother could be turning in her grade. Do

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Speaker 1: She's staring out the house. Later that day, then you

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Speaker 1: got the locks chain. Now that's a good move. She

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Speaker 1: She and she went to your mom and said, I'm disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: My mom said I should reconsider and let her do

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Speaker 1: her laundry. Want some more? Now, you ain't coming in here.

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Speaker 1: You ain't coming here doing no laundry. You ain't coming

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Speaker 1: in here taking the more food out refrigerator. You're not

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Speaker 1: coming in here watching your stories. I'll tell you what's

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Speaker 1: happening on General Hospital. You don't get to come through

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Speaker 1: here no more. It's not you ain't sitting on the

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Speaker 1: lock chase. Ain't the more damn rocket chairs out here,

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Speaker 1: all this old ass stuff you used to do it,

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Speaker 1: sitting on the steps quitting. I don't took all the

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Speaker 1: whitney on the poort? All this old people's stuff you coming, man,

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of all. That's because jun you young,

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Speaker 1: You don't know old people to dude, quittening this stuff

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Speaker 1: in here here checking corn on the back steps. And

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Speaker 1: then day we don't we buy the corn that ain't

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Speaker 1: got no chuck on it. Come over here snapping peas

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Speaker 1: and stuff we write green beans that's already snapped. We're

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Speaker 1: don't want you making them damn ice cream overhire. And

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Speaker 1: the stuff? Man? Like hiding doss bars? Anyway? Yeah, we're young.

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Speaker 1: We don't do old stuff no more. She's sitting up

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Speaker 1: with all the damn moth balls in it? Take all

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Speaker 1: man got to get it together. She can't come over

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Speaker 1: here no more. Who the hell? Still driving a seventy

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Speaker 1: folk Catillac car? Don't even fit the driveway? No damn

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Speaker 1: Get your ass out of here with that big ass Catillac.

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Speaker 1: Can't even go through a drive through with that big

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Speaker 1: ass car no more? All right, Steve, thank you. Post

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