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Speaker 1: It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you

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Speaker 1: My good friend, Shirley straw Berry. Thank you, my good

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Speaker 1: friend Junior. Subject smoke and Mirrors. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I'm

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Speaker 1: in a long distance relationship with a man that my

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Speaker 1: She said, Other than being vain, he's extremely quiet and nerdy.

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Speaker 1: He and I talked a lot in the beginning, and

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Speaker 1: it was fun to have someone to talk to. I

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Speaker 1: overlooked the fact that every time we talked he was

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Speaker 1: smoking weed, or had just had some weed, or was

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Speaker 1: planning to smoke weed at any minute. After a few

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Speaker 1: months of doing video chats he wanted to see me.

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Speaker 1: I told him he could come visit me at my house,

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Speaker 1: but he insisted that I come visit him, especially since

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Speaker 1: my daughter lives in the same city. He bought me

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Speaker 1: a ticket and asked me to stay at his house.

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Speaker 1: I planned to stay in his guest room, but I

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Speaker 1: saw condoms on his nightstand and I was totally turned

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Speaker 1: He asked what I was into sexually, and I was

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Speaker 1: shocked because we'd never talked about fetishes and role playing.

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Speaker 1: He told me what he wanted to do to me sexually,

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Speaker 1: and he said we could watch ourselves in the mirrors

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Speaker 1: and went to my daughter's apartment. He hasn't called or

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Speaker 1: texted me since, but he told my daughter I am

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Speaker 1: too shy and hard to get along with. Should I

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Speaker 1: explain the smoke and mirrors to my daughter or let

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Speaker 1: her keep thinking that the breakup was all my fault?

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Speaker 1: Please help? Who cares what he says? That's what I say?

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Speaker 1: Who cares? And Why do you feel compelled to tell

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Speaker 1: That still doesn't make you obligate it. It's simply not

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Speaker 1: her business. You can just say that it didn't work

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Speaker 1: out and keep it moving. What I don't get is

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Speaker 1: why you didn't stay at your daughter's house instead of

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Speaker 1: what the man you hardly knew. I mean, you say

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Speaker 1: not in it. You just talked to this guy. You're

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Speaker 1: not in a relationship with this man. You know. You

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Speaker 1: only know a couple of things about this guy. One

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Speaker 1: is Eddie smokes weed all of the time. Your daughter's

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Speaker 1: house would have been the choice. That would have been

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Speaker 1: a safer, smarter situation for you to be in since

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Speaker 1: you were traveling, And I'm glad you got out of

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Speaker 1: this house when you did, because that could have been

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Speaker 1: it could have worked out crazy for you, could have

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Speaker 1: been dangerous. You don't know. Then you get to his

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Speaker 1: that's it, really, mom, I think you need to slow down, says,

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Speaker 1: because you don't know what you want. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: insulted with the mirrors and the condoms on the nightstand.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he could have at least put those up,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't. You didn't. You didn't do enough homework

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Speaker 1: gonna be, what was gonna be waiting for you when

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Speaker 1: you got off that plane. You went from video chatting

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Speaker 1: it sounds a little crazy, and I don't want you

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Speaker 1: that you can watch yourselves while you have sex. What

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Speaker 1: you don't You don't even know him like that. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you left early. I hope you learned what

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Speaker 1: not to do in the future. Steve, Well, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot to unpack here, but really nothing to unpack. This

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Speaker 1: so let's go. I mean, a long distance relationship with

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Speaker 1: He came stood in front of her to see himself

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Speaker 1: extremely quiet and nerdy. Dude, that makes sense to you,

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Speaker 1: not at all. It just don't go together at all. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I think your daughter gave you initially a bad read,

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Speaker 1: You said, he and I talked a lot in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It was fun to have someone to talk to. Let's

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Speaker 1: stop for a minute. What did you just say? You

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Speaker 1: heard it? It was fun to have someone to talk to.

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Speaker 1: Where have you been in Where have you been locked away?

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Speaker 1: Have you been in disposed? Have you been at a convent?

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Speaker 1: Have you been up in their mountains at a retreat?

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Speaker 1: Have you just retired from being a monk in a

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Speaker 1: is she was lonely. I think that's what the hook

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Speaker 1: up was. I overlooked the fact that every time we talked,

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Speaker 1: at any minute. Smokey the nerd, that's vain, loves himself, quiet, nerdy,

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Speaker 1: That's all she knew about him. All right, we'll have

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Speaker 1: part two of your response coming up, Steve. To today's

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

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Speaker 1: This subject smoke and mirrors. Here's a woman who is

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Speaker 1: obviously extremely lonely. Her daughter lives out of state. Meets

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Speaker 1: this man at the gym. She was working out, looking

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Speaker 1: to her mom, saying, other than being vain, he's really

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Speaker 1: quiet and nerdy. That don't go together. Vain people are

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Speaker 1: very rarely quiet or nerdy. Your daughter does not know

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Speaker 1: how to assess people. You meet the man, y'all get

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Speaker 1: on the phone, y'all started talking. He and I talked

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Speaker 1: have someone to talk to. What what so? Who are you?

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Speaker 1: It was fun to have someone to talk to. Okay,

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Speaker 1: damn where you being? Lady? I overlooked the fact that

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Speaker 1: just had some weed. Always planning in the smoke weed

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Speaker 1: he might not be quiet, he might yet be sleepy

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Speaker 1: a lot. After a few months of doing video chats,

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Speaker 1: the same city. Okay, that kind of makes sense. He

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Speaker 1: What anybody flew you out here for that? All right?

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Speaker 1: Who flew you out there to stay in the guest room?

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Speaker 1: just stayed keep on new these video chats, because at

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Speaker 1: least I can talk to you while we're in this bedroom.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right? Oh hell, I guess I'll come

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Speaker 1: on and go then. But I left after he told

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with that. Yeah, daughter told you he was vain.

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Speaker 1: He abought it, build he got to see itself when

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Speaker 1: he gets up. But he has some other plans for you. Now,

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Speaker 1: But and the concu He asked me what I was

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Speaker 1: about fetish is and role playing. Well, but you have

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Speaker 1: talked about sex. See, that's what she didn't put in that.

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Speaker 1: Y'all just didn't discuss fetishes in role playing but everything else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you're lying if you think all the video chats

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Speaker 1: we did it. That's what the flow of ceiling mirrors is. Fault.

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Speaker 1: That's what the condoms is on that table phone. Yourdsey

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, there's some stuff in that draws though. I

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Speaker 1: got an uber right away and went to my daughter's

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Speaker 1: He hasn't called a text me since then. Well, what

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Speaker 1: hold on, he ain't called and text me since then.

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Speaker 1: But he told my daughter I'm too shy and hard

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Speaker 1: a poor assessment of men. But, like Shirley said, what

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Speaker 1: do you care what the hell he thinks or what

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Speaker 1: your daughter think? Yeah, let your daughter dat him. She

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Speaker 1: liked going to the gym, she liked looking at herself

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Speaker 1: in the mirror. I don't really see what you want

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Speaker 1: us to do, So should I let my daughter keep

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Speaker 1: thinking that the breakup was all my fault. Please help,

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Speaker 1: just really, you really don't have a problem. You're not

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Speaker 1: going back up there. You're not into fetishes and role playing.

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Speaker 1: You don't like looking at yourself in the mirror because

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Speaker 1: you probably get out the bed and you know, I

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Speaker 1: like cool walking towards it, But when you turn sideways

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Speaker 1: and that float of ceiling mirror, who could throw your

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Speaker 1: ass into something so stupid? That's what she don't like

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Speaker 1: to Did you be walking to me and being right now,

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Speaker 1: You really don't have a problem. I tell my daughter

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Speaker 1: the truth. Actually I flew out here. We had discussed sex,

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Speaker 1: but we didn't discuss fetishes and role playing obviously. Uh,

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Speaker 1: big big boy over here, Well, big boy wanted to

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Speaker 1: put some straps on me and have me swinging back

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Speaker 1: and forth. And every time I swung into him, you

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Speaker 1: knew what was gonna happen. Now listen, leave your comments

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