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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: write us okay and more. Submit your Strawberry letter to

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter. We'll try

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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: letter live. Bure like we're gonna read this one right here,

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Speaker 1: right now. Buggle up, hold on tight, We got it

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Speaker 1: for you here. It is the stroll every letter subject.

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Speaker 1: My man says, I went from whop to hop. All right,

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a thirty year old mother with

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Speaker 1: three children. My children's father and I have been together

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Speaker 1: over ten years, so let me say this before you

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Speaker 1: bash me. He has asked me to marry him several times,

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Speaker 1: and I respectfully declined because we need to go to

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Speaker 1: therapy before we get married. Here's why my confidence is

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Speaker 1: at an all time low, because my children's father has

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Speaker 1: cheated many times. Whenever I confront him, his exact words are,

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Speaker 1: your sex is very boring and you complain too much.

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Speaker 1: When the new Mega Stallion and Cardi B Song came out,

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Speaker 1: He even joked that I've gone from wop to hop,

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Speaker 1: meaning I have horrible ap My response was, well, I

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Speaker 1: was what you said in the letter was horrible, ass Pere.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to say ass You got to read

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Speaker 1: the letter like we wrote the letter out of me.

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Speaker 1: You didn't read. You didn't write the letter. Ike, I

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Speaker 1: can't see anyway, all right, you guys got the message.

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Speaker 1: My response was, well, I wouldn't complain as much and

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Speaker 1: would do a better job in the bedroom if you

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Speaker 1: were half the man you used to be. I'm often

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Speaker 1: tired from work and running around with three children, so

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Speaker 1: he blames me for our back luster sex life and

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Speaker 1: not ever being in the mood. I've obliged him many

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Speaker 1: nights and would just lie there trying not to fall

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Speaker 1: asleep until the sex was over. But now, years later,

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Speaker 1: and after all the cheating, it has affected my ability

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Speaker 1: to perform in the bedroom. I've heard it's a mental thing,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure why I can't get excited or

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Speaker 1: in the mood. I know that if I can't please him,

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Speaker 1: he's going to get it somewhere else. Just recently, we

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Speaker 1: got into a big argument and he yelled out that

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Speaker 1: I have some whack a kitty. He apologized a few

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Speaker 1: minutes later. But this is affecting my confidence. He refuses

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Speaker 1: to go to therapy, So should I take my three

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Speaker 1: children and leave him? Okay, listen, you don't need therapy.

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Speaker 1: You've mentioned therapy a few times in this letter. You

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Speaker 1: need a new man, that's what you need. He's not

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Speaker 1: deserving of you. I mean, what does he do besides

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Speaker 1: put you down and cheat? Ten years of this, ten

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Speaker 1: years of this you've been going through. It has to

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

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Speaker 1: to be enough for even the strongest and the most

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Speaker 1: confident woman wouldn't be able to deal with this all

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Speaker 1: the time. And here you are doing what so many

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Speaker 1: women do, blaming yourself. I mean, I just say, life happens.

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Speaker 1: Three kids in a full time job that's not easy

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Speaker 1: for anyone, and then he expects you to perform and

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Speaker 1: all of this and blah blah blah. When your man

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Speaker 1: is not right, sex is the last thing on your mind.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you that the only thing that you

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Speaker 1: were to blame for in this is staying with him,

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

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Speaker 1: back repeatedly when he cheats on you, so you don't

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Speaker 1: give him an incentive to stop cheating or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: So I say to you, first things first, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about from whop to hop and all of that right now,

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Speaker 1: forget all that. You can get that back. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: appreciate it or deserve it anyway. It's just time to

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Speaker 1: get back to yourself. I think you should do you

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Speaker 1: boo right now. Start building up, Start restoring what you

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Speaker 1: have allowed him to tear down in all these years.

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Speaker 1: Fall in love with yourself again. Start putting yourself first. Okay,

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Speaker 1: yourself first, and watch him take notice. If not, don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid to get the kids and move on or

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Speaker 1: put his trifling behind out Steve, you don't, surely I

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Speaker 1: agree with every single thing you've said. Great advice to

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Speaker 1: this woman. Of course, my angle is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. See, I know how men operate, and

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Speaker 1: what he's doing is the atypical thing when a man

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Speaker 1: get busted or something. Here comes the reverse psychology, Here

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Speaker 1: comes the why I did it? You know? No, it's

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Speaker 1: thirty year old mother of three, been together ten years.

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Speaker 1: He's asking to marry, but she's declined respectfully because she

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Speaker 1: feels like they need to go to counseling before they

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Speaker 1: get married because my confidence is at all time low

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Speaker 1: because he's cheated on her many times. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: cheated on you many times? Why are you still in

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Speaker 1: the relationship? The marriage part, This ain't even a discussion.

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Speaker 1: If a man ain't gonna act right before you getting married,

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Speaker 1: what makes you think? What thing happens that makes you

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Speaker 1: think that he gonna change after you getting married? Remember,

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Speaker 1: like I've said on this show several times, a minister

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Speaker 1: told me one time, when a man gets married, the

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Speaker 1: only thing that changes the day after the wedding is

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Speaker 1: the appearance of his left hand third finger. That's if

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Speaker 1: he is what he was before you got married. Marriage

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Speaker 1: doesn't change anything. Now, if a person you either practice

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Speaker 1: being married or you don't. You either getting ready used

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Speaker 1: to cut and cut your little strains out there or

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Speaker 1: you a little while old, so and get that out

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

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Speaker 1: You can't be cheating on this woman repeatedly, steady asking

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Speaker 1: her to marry you, marry you for what? Man? Are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me? And then every time you bust him,

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Speaker 1: his exact words are your sex is very boring and

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Speaker 1: you complain too much. Wait a minute, that's not why

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Speaker 1: you're cheating on me. You're cheating on me because your

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Speaker 1: ass is a low life. That's why you doing it. Man. Now,

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Speaker 1: when we come back, I have my weight that you

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Speaker 1: should handle this. All right, coming up, we'll have first

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Speaker 1: you staying okay, oh okay. At twenty three after the hour,

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Speaker 1: subject of my Strawberry letter for today is my man

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Speaker 1: says I went from wop to hop. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening show, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. Subject my man

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Speaker 1: says I went from wop to hop. This letter right

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Speaker 1: here kind of hurts. Shirley gave this woman some spot

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Speaker 1: on advice that I agree with thousand percent. Thirty year

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Speaker 1: old woman three children have been together with her man

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Speaker 1: ten years and she's asked he's asked her to marry

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Speaker 1: him several times, but she's respectfully declined. Why you did

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Speaker 1: it respectfully? I don't know, because I found out he

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Speaker 1: wasn't treating you with no respect at all. But you

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Speaker 1: respectfully decline because you say you need to go to

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Speaker 1: therapy before you getting married because your confidence as an

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Speaker 1: all time load, because he has cheated on you many times. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's a thing. When you confront him, his exact words are,

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Speaker 1: your sex is very boring and you complain too much.

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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 kids,

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

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Speaker 1: He showed keep coming over that a lot for this

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Speaker 1: boring sex three kids. Now. When the new mag 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 wob to a hop hap and in the

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Speaker 1: words of his latter meeting, 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, or 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 where I started to have hope for you. My

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Speaker 1: half the man you used to be. Nah, that's why

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

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

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about chop see right now, See if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about my P, then we need to talk

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Speaker 1: about choke p. See. I might have a hop a

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Speaker 1: horrible ass P. But but you got something wrong with

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Speaker 1: you too, because you just said he had to man,

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Speaker 1: he used to be. That's a lot smaller. You're scaring me. Stick.

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Speaker 1: So now you gotta lap. See you gotta halp. You

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Speaker 1: got a horrible ass pe and he gotta lap. He

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Speaker 1: got a little ass pe. See what I'm laid. See

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Speaker 1: then what we got to do? We were we're doing initials. Now, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I gotta help. You gotta lap, You gotta little. Now

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Speaker 1: we're in here talking about each other. Pe. Let's spread

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Speaker 1: the pee round. Make my funk to pee funk. I

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Speaker 1: want to get funk up. I want the bomb. I

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Speaker 1: want the pe funk. I want my funk funk. Oh,

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Speaker 1: make my funk the pe funk. I want to get

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Speaker 1: funked up. That's what you are to play the next time,

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Speaker 1: y'all head to the bathroom and the head to the bedroom.

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Speaker 1: I want something to happen to me. But you ain't

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Speaker 1: half the man you used to be, cause you the shrunk. Oh,

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Speaker 1: your fat ass stomach is leaning over your belt. I

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Speaker 1: can't find it. You can't find it now you're over

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Speaker 1: here talking about mind horrible. It's cause you little. Now

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Speaker 1: we're doing all. You can go or you can go lp.

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

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Speaker 1: livesy all. You can be a lap you gotta you

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Speaker 1: gotta limp ass poker. See you can use We could

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

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Speaker 1: You can bruise your man's ego, or we're in the

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Speaker 1: ego bruising business. Yeah, you ain't as exciting in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah you don't need it, Sampy, you need it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you need to give it to him like he giving

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

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Speaker 1: ain't what you was. You don't know what color shoes

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Speaker 1: you got on, What color your shoes? You look straight down?

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Speaker 1: What color your shoes? You don't even know. I went

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Speaker 1: through that when I was pregnant. See you don't know that. See,

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Speaker 1: but men See it's okay for a woman to do

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Speaker 1: that when she pregnant, y'all having baby in there. But

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Speaker 1: to him. You ain't got to be the only one

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Speaker 1: take a shot. And now, years later, after all the cheating,

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

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Speaker 1: why I can't get excited or in the mood. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me help you. You can't get excited because he

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Speaker 1: gets there, you about to fall asleep. All these his kids,

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Speaker 1: at some point, that's what I said. That's what I said,

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Speaker 1: you know. And they all little kids because he could,

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Speaker 1: because he loved and he made little kids. All his kids,

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Speaker 1: real little undersized down there at the school. That's why

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Speaker 1: I ain't known on them playing basketball, none of this, See, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Gonnauner stand his ass now, y'all got in the big

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Speaker 1: ass argument. Recently, he yelled out that you got some

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Speaker 1: Well you well, well you got a whack ass Well

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Speaker 1: we can't. I just said it. Well, y'alls is whacked too,

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Speaker 1: bad sex. Now where you're going, you gotta keep cheating

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