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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen. If you

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Speaker 1: need advice on sex, on dating, on parenting, relationships, whatever,

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Speaker 1: to help you if we can. Can't help everybody. If

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Speaker 1: we can, we'll try, and we could be reading your

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Speaker 1: life like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.

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

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Speaker 1: It is the scroll every letter subject. My man says,

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Speaker 1: I went from whop to hop. All right, Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty year old mother with three children. My

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Speaker 1: children's father and I have been together over ten years,

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Speaker 1: so let me say this before you bash me. He

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Speaker 1: has asked me to marry him several times, and I

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Speaker 1: respectfully declined because we need to go to spy before

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Speaker 1: we get married. Here's why my confidence is at an

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Speaker 1: all time low, because my children's father has cheated many times.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I confront him, his exact words are, your sex

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Speaker 1: is very boring and you complain too much. When the

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Speaker 1: new Mega Stallion and Cardi B song came out, he

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Speaker 1: even joked that I've gone from WAP to hop, meaning

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Speaker 1: I have horrible AP. My response was, well, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: what he said. The letter was horrible ass You didn't

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Speaker 1: want to say as you got to read the letter

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Speaker 1: like we wrote the letter on to me, you didn't write.

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Speaker 1: You didn't write the letter ike anyway, all right, you

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Speaker 1: guys got the message. My response was, well, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: to be. I'm often tired from work and running around

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Speaker 1: with three children, so he blames me for our lackluster

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Speaker 1: sex life and not ever being in the mood. I've

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Speaker 1: obliged him many nights and would just lie there trying

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Speaker 1: not to fall asleep until the sex was over. But

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Speaker 1: now years later and after all the cheating, it has

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Speaker 1: affected my ability to perform in the bedroom. I've heard

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Speaker 1: it's a mental thing, but I'm not sure why I

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Speaker 1: can't get excited or in the mood. I know that

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Speaker 1: if I can't please him, he's going to get it

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Just recently, we got into a big argument

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Speaker 1: and he yelled out that I have some whack a kitty.

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Speaker 1: He apologized a few minutes later. But this is affecting

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Speaker 1: my confidence. He refuses to go to therapy, So should

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Speaker 1: I take my three children and leave him? Okay, listen,

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Speaker 1: you don't need therapy. You've mentioned therapy a few times

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Speaker 1: in this letter. You need a new man, That's what

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Speaker 1: you need. He's not deserving of you. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: years of this, ten years of this been going through

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Speaker 1: It has to be enough that you know, just say enough.

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Speaker 1: This has to be enough for even the strongest and

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Speaker 1: the most confident woman wouldn't be able to deal with

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Speaker 1: this all the time. And here you are doing what

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Speaker 1: so many women do, blaming yourself. I mean, I just say,

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Speaker 1: life happens, three kids in a full time job that's

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Speaker 1: not easy for anyone, and then he expects you to

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Speaker 1: perform and all of this and blah blah blah. When

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Speaker 1: your man is not right, sex is the last thing

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Speaker 1: on your mind. Let me tell you that the only

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Speaker 1: thing that you were to blame for in this is

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Speaker 1: staying with him, in my opinion, for ten years, and

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Speaker 1: for taking him back repeatedly when he cheats on you.

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Speaker 1: So you don't give him an incentive to stop cheating

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I say to you, first

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Speaker 1: things first, don't worry about from whop to hop and

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Speaker 1: all of that right now, forget all that. You can

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Speaker 1: get that back. He doesn't appreciate it or deserve it anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's just time to get back to yourself. I think

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Speaker 1: you should do you boo right now. Start building up,

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Speaker 1: Start restoring what you have allowed him to tear down

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Speaker 1: in all these years. Fall in love with yourself again.

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Speaker 1: Start putting yourself first. Okay, yourself first, and watch him

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Speaker 1: kids and move on or put his trifling behind out. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you don't surely I agree with every single thing you've said.

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Speaker 1: Great advice to this woman. Of course, my angle, it's

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Speaker 1: men operate, and what he's doing is the atypical thing

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Speaker 1: when a man get busted or something. Here comes the

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Speaker 1: reverse psychology. Yeah, here comes the why I did it?

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Speaker 1: You know not? It's thirty year old mother three been

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Speaker 1: at all time low because he's cheated on her many times.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, cheated on you many times? Why are

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Speaker 1: you still in the relationship the marriage part. This ain't

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Speaker 1: even a discussion. If a man ain't gonna act right

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Speaker 1: before you get married, what makes you think? What thing

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Speaker 1: several times, a minister told me one time, when a

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Speaker 1: after the wedding is the appearance of his left hand

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Speaker 1: third finger. That's if he is what he was before

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Speaker 1: you got married. Marriage doesn't change anything. Now if a

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Speaker 1: person or you either practice being married or you don't.

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Speaker 1: You either getting ready used to cutt and cut your

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Speaker 1: little strings out there or your little wife old sowan

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Speaker 1: get that out the way for you get married. That's

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Speaker 1: how you get married. You can't be cheating on this

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Speaker 1: woman repeatedly, steady asking her to marry you, marry you

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Speaker 1: for what man? Are you kidding me? And then every

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Speaker 1: time you bust him, his exact words are, your sex

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Speaker 1: is very bored and you complain too much. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: that's not why you're cheating on me. You cheating on

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Speaker 1: me because your ass is a low life. That's why

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Speaker 1: you doing it. Man. Now, when we come back, I

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Speaker 1: have my weight that you should handle this. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, we'll have you staying okay, oh okay. At

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Speaker 1: twenty three after the hour, subject of my Strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: for today is my man says I went from wap

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Speaker 1: to hop. We'll get back into it 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 letters. Subject man says, I went from

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Speaker 1: wop to hop. This letter right here kind of hurts.

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Speaker 1: So Shirley gave this woman some spot on advice that

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Speaker 1: I agree with thousand percent. Thirty year old woman three

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Speaker 1: she's asked he's asked her to marry him several times,

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Speaker 1: but she's respectfully declined. Why you did it respectfully? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, because I found out he wasn't treating you

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Speaker 1: with no respect at all. But you respectfully decline because

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Speaker 1: you say you need to go to therapy before you

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Speaker 1: getting married, because your confidence as an all time low

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Speaker 1: because he has cheated on you many times. Now, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. When you confront him, his exact words are,

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that's why he's cheated on you many times.

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Speaker 1: But he stayed with you for ten years, made three keys,

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Speaker 1: and he's telling you that your sex is very boring

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Speaker 1: his show, keep coming over. There a lot for this

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Speaker 1: boring sex. Three kids now. When the new Mad Stallion

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Speaker 1: and Cardi B song came out, he joked that I've

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Speaker 1: gone from whop to a hop hap and in the

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Speaker 1: words of his latter meaning I have a horrible ass

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Speaker 1: p okay not dog. Really, this is mental abuse. I

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Speaker 1: understand the woman's confidence being shattered to understand that, but dog,

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna use reverse psychology. So you're telling this

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Speaker 1: woman the reason you cheat because she got bad sex.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, and then, lady, Now, now you got close. Lady,

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Speaker 1: here's why I started to have hope for you. My

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Speaker 1: half the man and you used to be Na, that's

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Speaker 1: why I want to get that in this letter. See

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Speaker 1: oh you stinging me talking about it. I got a

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Speaker 1: horrible p. Let's talk about choke pe see right now, See,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna talk about my pe, then we need

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Speaker 1: to talk about choke pe. See. I might have a

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Speaker 1: hop a horrible ass p. But but you got something

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Speaker 1: wrong with you too, because you just saying he had

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Speaker 1: to man, he used to be. That's a lot smaller.

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Speaker 1: You're scaring me stick. So now you gotta lap. See

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Speaker 1: you gotta halp. You got a horrible ass P, and

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Speaker 1: he got a lap. He got a little last pe.

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Speaker 1: See what I mean? Then what we got to do?

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Speaker 1: We were we're doing initials. Now, oh, I gotta help.

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Speaker 1: You gotta lap, you gotta no, we're here talking about

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Speaker 1: each other. Pete, let's spread the pee round. Make my

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Speaker 1: funk the pe funk. I want to get funked up.

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Speaker 1: I want the bomb, I want the pe funk. I

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Speaker 1: want my funk funked up. Make my funk the p funk.

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Speaker 1: I want you to get funked up. That's what you

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Speaker 1: are to play the next time, y'all head to the

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Speaker 1: to happen to me. But you ain't half the man

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Speaker 1: fat ass stomach is leaning over your belt. I can't

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Speaker 1: You got a livesy old poker. See your poker is lousy.

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Speaker 1: initials all day. See one thing about it, ladies. You

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Speaker 1: bruising business. Yeah, you ain't as ex siting in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah you don't need you need. Yeah, you need to

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Speaker 1: It ain't what it was because you ain't what you was.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what color shoes you got on? What

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Speaker 1: color your shoes? You look straight down? What color your shoes?

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Speaker 1: You don't even know. I went through that when I

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Speaker 1: see it's okay for a woman to do that when

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Speaker 1: now years later, after all the cheating, it's affected your

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Speaker 1: You can't get excited because he ain't exciting, He ain't

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Speaker 1: Then it must have been good at some point, That's

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Speaker 1: ain't none of them playing basketball, none of this. See,

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Speaker 1: y'all gonna to stand his ass. Now, y'all got the

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Speaker 1: some whack ass kitty. Then he gonna apologize a few

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Speaker 1: minutes later. Well, you, well, well you got a whack ass.

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Speaker 1: Well we can't. I just said it. Well, yours is

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