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Speaker 1: it is Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject Undy's in

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Speaker 1: right here. It's not what you think, Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I married my high school sweetheart nine years ago. He

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Speaker 1: until he met me at age seventeen. Is Daddy told

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Speaker 1: to join their church. So I joined the church and

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Speaker 1: got to have dinner at their nice, big house on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: My husband was very lame before I started dating him,

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Speaker 1: We got married and I had two children. My mother

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Speaker 1: not anymore. It's no laughing matter. After I found three

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Speaker 1: he did. He told me he is dreamt of seeing

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Speaker 1: husband making love years ago. One more time, Tommy, he

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Speaker 1: told me he's dying to switch places with his son.

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Speaker 1: Do I avoid my father in law from now on?

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Speaker 1: mean really? Are you crazy? For real? Right now? You

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Speaker 1: But since you had to ask, no, don't give this

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Speaker 1: husband's father. Yeah, this is your husband's father. I know

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Speaker 1: you know that that cannot happen if you plan to

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Speaker 1: That is this old man's problem, not yours. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: you have a big ego. You like to brag about

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Speaker 1: how you got your husband turn him out, and you know,

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Speaker 1: all this feeds into your ego even more. But you

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Speaker 1: coming up in part two of today's Strawberry Letter. The

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is

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Speaker 1: Undy's in his suitcase. So here's the deal. This young couple,

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Speaker 1: He was seventeen. Married this dating this girl in high school.

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Speaker 1: How y'all doing, Hey, little fella, Hey, do me a fever?

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Speaker 1: Go to stow or me some more packer or new pots.

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Speaker 1: He's supposed to stop now, yeah, I know, but I

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Speaker 1: ain't just gonna go to snow, all right, baby, I'll

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Speaker 1: be back. All right, all right, hey Pop? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? You me? Yeah? Thank you? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: you all right? You know? Yeah, your your son takes

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Speaker 1: got them new pots for you? Man? Here you go,

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Speaker 1: Hey boy, how you doing? Hey? One other thing? Can

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Speaker 1: motor oil? What's wrong with the car? Pop? That's at

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Speaker 1: got that motor hale man hey son back so soon? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: want to raise you and shoot you. Y'all know that

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Speaker 1: you don't stay your ways away from here. Because he's hungry, Pops,

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