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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more. Please

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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now. Buck it up and

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Speaker 1: hold on tight. We got it for you here. It

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Speaker 1: is a Strawberry Letter. Think enough few subjects. I have

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Speaker 1: the drummer, but I want the pastor. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: About a year ago, I left my home church to

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Speaker 1: join another church. I was dating the church's drummer and

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Speaker 1: he invited me to join. I fell in love with

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere of the church and the senior pastor was

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Speaker 1: really good. When I joined, I was asked to help

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Speaker 1: put together a praise dance team. I enlisted the help

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Speaker 1: of the associate pastor to help me. The associate pastor

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Speaker 1: is only three years older than me, and we connected

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Speaker 1: on so many levels. We went to the same college

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Speaker 1: and we have the same favorite restaurant. I was interested

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Speaker 1: in getting to know him better, but I was in

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Speaker 1: a relationship with the drummer. One Saturday, I was at

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Speaker 1: a praise Dan's practice with the youth, and the associate

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Speaker 1: pastor brought my lunch from my favorite restaurant. After practice,

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Speaker 1: that my boyfriend, the drummer, is a ladiesman and has

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Speaker 1: been with several women in the church. That put me

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Speaker 1: at ease about breaking up with the drummer so I

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Speaker 1: could pursue the associate pastor. A month after I ended

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Speaker 1: my relationship, I told the associate pastor how I felt

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Speaker 1: He invited me to his place to talk. One thing

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Speaker 1: led to another and we were intimate. He was exceptional

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Speaker 1: We talked daily for about a week afterwards, and then

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Speaker 1: he ghosted me. I confronted him him at church and

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Speaker 1: I told him I wanted it and I want him.

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Speaker 1: He said, there's no way we can be together because

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Speaker 1: my ex boyfriend goes to the church. I want this

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Speaker 1: man and we are so perfect for each other. Do

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Speaker 1: I leave the church so we can be together? Please advise.

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Speaker 1: Oh slow, you're a role lady. Please. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you're way too gullible, way too gullible and easy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this man, the associate pastor badmouth your boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: the drummer. You break up with your boyfriend, and then

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Speaker 1: he said. All he had to do was just backstab

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Speaker 1: your boyfriend and then bring you a plate from your

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Speaker 1: favorite restaurant. And now you want to leave this church

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Speaker 1: to be with this man, to try and get this man.

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Speaker 1: I just think you're a mess. You know, you're all

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Speaker 1: over the place. So he's told you that you can't

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Speaker 1: be together because of your ex and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you need to listen. I think you need

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Speaker 1: to really hear what he's saying to you. All he

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Speaker 1: wanted from you, he got okay that first night when

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Speaker 1: to pursue him. I think it's over. He doesn't want

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Speaker 1: you leave it alone. Steve, Okay, I had the drumma,

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Speaker 1: but I want to pass. Everybody's familiar with the familiar line,

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Speaker 1: get a drama soon. Yeah, literally, it messed around it

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Speaker 1: gave the drama too much. Well, you've been dating the

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Speaker 1: church's drama. You left your home church. Now you left

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Speaker 1: your home church for a reason for the drumma. Or

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Speaker 1: asked her to help put together a praise dance team.

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Speaker 1: Now here we go, right here, they asked you to

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Speaker 1: help me. Since when is it the associate pastor's position

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Speaker 1: to put together to praise dance team? The kids? You

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Speaker 1: the church. Amazing how he just bought that up? Isn't

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Speaker 1: it slanging mud? Now? All of a sudden that put

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Speaker 1: What you're going to be surprised about is when we

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Speaker 1: come back. What I have to tell you. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: hold onto that thought, Steve, We will definitely come back

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Speaker 1: in twenty three minutes after the hour. To get back

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Speaker 1: I had the drummer, but I want the pastor. We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into it, she did. You're listening show, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. I had

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Speaker 1: the drummer, but the pastor is the subject. It's lady

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Speaker 1: the drummer after she joined, and told her, why don't

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Speaker 1: So anyway, when you found out you're gonna pick the team,

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Speaker 1: you pick the dance team. All right, he's only three

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Speaker 1: years older than me. We connected on so many levels.

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Speaker 1: the associate pastor. Whoa you roll? That you just left

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Speaker 1: your other church, Probably was some mess going on over there.

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Speaker 1: he was something before the past. So why don't know

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Speaker 1: You're gonna leave another church? Yeah? So what you really

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Speaker 1: and find out does he even won't you? Because well,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if your ex boyfriend is the drummer.

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Speaker 1: That's no reason why man don't want you. See, he

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, all these letters bring out some bad things.

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Speaker 1: You have to face, so many things you have to

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Speaker 1: Now you to find out he didn't ghosted you. Pastors

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Speaker 1: I was wrong to have secret you where he was.

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Speaker 1: don't want you. You got played and it don't matter

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Speaker 1: and the atmosphere. Get a drummer something its Post your

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