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

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Speaker 1: Here it is. It is the Strawberry letter. Subject. I

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Speaker 1: cheated twice and had three outside children. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I met when we were twelve years old,

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Speaker 1: and we got married when we were twenty years old.

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Speaker 1: We've been married for fifteen years and we were very

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Speaker 1: happy until recently. Now I need help to save my marriage.

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Speaker 1: Three years ago, I cheated on my wife and got

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Speaker 1: another woman pregnant. I told my wife about the affair

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Speaker 1: and the baby. My wife was going to divorce me,

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Speaker 1: but we went to marriage counseling and she had a

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Speaker 1: change of heart. My wife welcomed the baby into our

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Speaker 1: family and she has grown to love the child. A

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Speaker 1: year later, I had sex with my wife's stepmother. My

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Speaker 1: wife and her stepmother are the same age, and her

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Speaker 1: stepmother is very attractive. It was a one night stand

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Speaker 1: with the stepmother, but she got pregnant and had twins.

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Speaker 1: We passed the pregnancy off as if she were pregnant

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Speaker 1: to question it. We never told anyone about our big secret. Well,

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Speaker 1: it all came out in the worst way. About three

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Speaker 1: months ago, my wife and her stepmother got into a

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Speaker 1: really bad argument, and the stepmother told my wife that

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Speaker 1: the twins were actually her stepson's and not her brothers.

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Speaker 1: She told my wife that she has had she has

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Speaker 1: d n A a DNA test to prove it all.

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Speaker 1: Hell broke loose. I admitted to my wife and my

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Speaker 1: wife's father that the twins are my sons. My wife

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Speaker 1: hasn't spoken to me since then. My wife's father filed

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Speaker 1: for divorce. I'm afraid my wife is going to file

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Speaker 1: for divorce too. I don't want to get a divorce.

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Speaker 1: What can I do to get my wife back? Please advise?

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Speaker 1: What can I do to get my wife back? You

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Speaker 1: ask nothing, nothing, nothing, There's nothing you can do nothing.

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Speaker 1: It's too late. You messed up. I mean you messed

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Speaker 1: up now once but twice. You don't deserve your wife.

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Speaker 1: You do not deserve her. She took you back the

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Speaker 1: first time after you cheated and had a kid, and

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Speaker 1: instead of you being grateful to God and straightening up

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Speaker 1: your act and doing the right thing, you go out

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Speaker 1: and do it again to someone who's close to home,

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Speaker 1: with your step mom, really, your wife's stepmother. I think

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Speaker 1: you're disrespectful. I think you're crazy and you know what else,

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Speaker 1: I think you're pretty arrogant at this point to even

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Speaker 1: think that you still have a chance after what you've done. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Like I said in the beginning, nothing nothing, nothing, only God,

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Speaker 1: okay himself can can save you now. And and that

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Speaker 1: is it. I mean, you say you don't want a divorce,

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Speaker 1: but you've done everything, everything possible to kill and destroy

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Speaker 1: your marriage. I'm surprised your wife is still there. I

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Speaker 1: think that you're a selfish person. You're reckless with it.

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Speaker 1: And uh, just remember you reap what you saw and

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Speaker 1: you've been doing this behind your wife's back, and this

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Speaker 1: is the result of your actions. So if she, if

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Speaker 1: she doesn't take you back, that's what you deserve at

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Speaker 1: this point, Steve, I don't know why you wrote exactly

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Speaker 1: damn letter? What what? What do you want us to do? We, sir,

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Speaker 1: we can't help you, sir. This ain't therapy. The only

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Speaker 1: one can help you helped you already when he put

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Speaker 1: read to you what you said. Sometimes you need to

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Speaker 1: hear this out loud. Three years ago, I cheated on

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Speaker 1: going to divorce me, but when went the marriage counseling,

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Speaker 1: So you figured, with all this happy going on, all

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Speaker 1: this new love, extra family members, your dumb mass thought

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Speaker 1: you are to go out and get some more kids.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, match counseling. Then grown to love her and

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Speaker 1: it's raised it. She's a part of my family. Let's

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Speaker 1: get another Just get some more family. Now, So you

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Speaker 1: go out, you don't get anybody. You get her stepmother,

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Speaker 1: which is the same age as your wife, which means

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Speaker 1: she's married to an older man, which is your father

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Speaker 1: in law. M you sleep with her, she get pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Hair twigs got this old ass dude thinking he's still

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Speaker 1: bringing it. He didn't know the new You don't know

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Speaker 1: And now he got to deal with that. This is crazy, man.

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Speaker 1: Your mother in law is pregnant. Now what happened was

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Speaker 1: actually her stepsons and not her brother's. Where was you at, hey, y'all,

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Speaker 1: I need to know what you're standing there when she said,

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Speaker 1: and you're watching your wife argue with your stepmma that

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Speaker 1: and then she tell her you don't know what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. I got news for you, then your brothers,

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Speaker 1: then your step sons. Me and I had his baby

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Speaker 1: he should live and art him and started left town.

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Speaker 1: How you're able to type this letter is beyond man.

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Speaker 1: Because he thinks I figured were in the department eight

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Speaker 1: team flows high. If I die about this, wonder it'll

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Speaker 1: feel better than me standing in the share this in

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Speaker 1: for me, right alright. We weren't gonna say nothing, hang on,

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Speaker 1: hang on, I know you have more. We're gonna have purpose.

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Speaker 1: We breed to this man and cheated on his wife.

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Speaker 1: Got another girl pregnant, came in, told his wife about

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Speaker 1: the fan and the baby. Wife gonna leave him. They

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Speaker 1: go to counseling, They work it out, she accepts the baby.

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Speaker 1: child like it's her own. Okay, m hm, you go

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Speaker 1: out again. This time you get the girl's mama. You

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Speaker 1: sleep with her mama cause they the same age, dating

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Speaker 1: her old as daddy, then married him. You then gave

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Speaker 1: And the way it came out was your wife got

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Speaker 1: told the news Jathany brown Man, what I need for

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Speaker 1: you to be. Yes, I'm gonna be the dude. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're arguing with my wife. Yes, yes, I'm listening. Uhuh,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm the lady who had the affair with I'm

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Speaker 1: telling your wife. Yeah I do. I do one part

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Speaker 1: and you're hearing the other part. We ain't talking about

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Speaker 1: the wife. The wife is right, yeah, right, So you

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Speaker 1: over here listening to this happen. Yeah, yeah, you just

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Speaker 1: in and here we go. I'm I'm the mother in law.

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Speaker 1: See what you don't know? What you ladies, ladies don't

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Speaker 1: we're about to know. Okay, that's just that's just don't

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Speaker 1: for a while. Listen, baby, listen, I mean mama or not,

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Speaker 1: but not don't talk to me. Okay, do not talk

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Speaker 1: Hold listen, everybody's gonna be looking stupid. Hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold Lord,

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Speaker 1: That makes you see I've been trying us around for

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Speaker 1: a long time. You're having birthday cakes on the God

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Speaker 1: I ain't saying a damn thing what Dad today? That Lord,

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Speaker 1: I'm hiding. You know, I'm letting you take off your

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Speaker 1: play brothers, but damn it, your truth. You're ready, God,

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Speaker 1: know is live. It's coming out today. You know, Dems

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Speaker 1: not your brother Jesus at all, dim is not your brother?

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Speaker 1: Me enough fool right here now, I know he's gonna

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Speaker 1: hear with you one time, No, damn one time. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hit this once and not ever wanted a year?

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Speaker 1: What what that? That's that's insulting to me because it's

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Speaker 1: just it. He Oh, we just hit the one thing hit.

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Speaker 1: Ain't hitting using for a love? What is ship talking

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Speaker 1: about talking about? I'm telling about that man, your husband,

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Speaker 1: you my baby daddy? Whoa what she said? What in

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Speaker 1: case y'all didn't hear me? Litten to me again your Loveland.

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Speaker 1: Look at all the roaches killing baby roaches in here?

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Speaker 1: Y'all just gonna let him work riding here. Oh y'all

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Speaker 1: don't see him, but I see him. Your husband is

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Speaker 1: my baby daddy. Want anybody won't talk to me, I'll

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Speaker 1: be in living room. Be nice, creaple your mama. Don't

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Speaker 1: you step your step mama? She im just saying, gonna

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Speaker 1: hear my crop, he hears you. You didn't done it bad.

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Speaker 1: You gotta line. You're too late to call on him now,

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Speaker 1: when the loves gave you on y'all lords say it's

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Speaker 1: Y'all't rip it. You know what I'm saying. She's gonna

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Speaker 1: just file something like that, But it ain't. Your voice

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Speaker 1: is high ready, It's not like anywhere would Who is

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Speaker 1: that saying I was going back and the money? No me, God,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who the little boys. Where are your brothers?

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Speaker 1: We're coming to find out there your son wow? Wow

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And then you do about that, and you

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Speaker 1: don't know why he wrote the letter and his wife,

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Speaker 1: I mean, she took the first kid in and grew

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Speaker 1: do it again, no, sir. And and here's what the

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