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Speaker 1: friend Charlie Strawberry. Thank you, my good friend Junior subject

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Speaker 1: he has done his research. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a

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Speaker 1: thirty year old single female and I'm a regional manager

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Speaker 1: for a jewelry company. I met a handsome and wealthy

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Speaker 1: man online and we dated for seven months. I didn't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of faith in online dating because I

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Speaker 1: thought it was for weirdos that only wanted to hook

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Speaker 1: up for sex. I also thought that all of the

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Speaker 1: men online were lying on their bios. Turns out I

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Speaker 1: was a weirdo and I got busted recently. My online

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Speaker 1: dating profile had that I was a single woman that

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Speaker 1: loves wine and the finer things in life. I fail

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Speaker 1: to put on there that I was a single mother

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Speaker 1: of a teenager. When I met my guy. I eventually

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Speaker 1: told him I have a thirteen year old daughter that

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Speaker 1: her private school. I met this man's mother and she

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Speaker 1: asked if we've ever met. I lied in her face

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Speaker 1: and kept the lie up for a long time until

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Speaker 1: his mom told him he should do some research on me.

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Speaker 1: His mother was actually one of my counselors at the

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Speaker 1: Juvenile Justice Center until I was eighteen years old. I

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Speaker 1: was in and out of rehab as a teenager, and

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Speaker 1: not because I was on drugs, but because I sold them.

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Speaker 1: Every time I got caught, I got sent to a

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Speaker 1: juvenile rehab center so I wouldn't have to go to

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Speaker 1: a detention center. By the time I turned seventeen, I

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Speaker 1: got pregnant and I left the streets alone. When my

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Speaker 1: child was born, my child's father's mom asked to raise

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Speaker 1: a baby, and I agreed it was best. I put

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Speaker 1: got a certificate, and then I got a great job.

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend did a lot of research to find out

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Speaker 1: who I really was, and then he broke up with me.

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Speaker 1: He told me, the past is the past, but I

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Speaker 1: should have been honest we had only been together for

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Speaker 1: seven months, so I was waiting. Was I wrong for

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Speaker 1: withholding that info? Well, you know, I'm a firm believer

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Speaker 1: in you don't have to tell everything, I mean, not

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Speaker 1: every little detail of your life. But in your case,

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Speaker 1: you left out key pieces of information that should have

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Speaker 1: been told. I mean, seven months is a long time

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Speaker 1: for you, guys to be together. Sometimes, you know, that

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Speaker 1: could determine how long you're going to be together. If

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Speaker 1: you get past three months, then the six months and

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Speaker 1: all of that. You know, sometimes you can make it

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Speaker 1: into a real relationship, you know. I just you know,

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Speaker 1: I understand how you feel about online dating. You said,

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Speaker 1: you know you thought it was for weirdos, and it

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Speaker 1: turned out that you were the one that was withholding things.

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Speaker 1: The question is, we'd only been together for seven months,

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Speaker 1: so were waiting? What were you waiting for the right moment?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to me that when his mother

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Speaker 1: moment for you to tell something. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: the constant lying to his mom who actually recognized you.

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Speaker 1: his research and timing is everything you could have taken

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Speaker 1: time to tell him. I mean, I get it, you

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Speaker 1: were probably scared you would lose him if you told him,

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Speaker 1: But not telling him made it worse. So what was

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Speaker 1: he supposed to do? I think this letter is not

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Speaker 1: about how you turned your life around for the better.

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Speaker 1: I think that's great. You know this happened quite a

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Speaker 1: while ago when you were seventeen eighteen, you're thirty now.

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Speaker 1: I just think this letter is not about that turning

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Speaker 1: your life around. It's great that you did that, but

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Speaker 1: this letter is about you withholding, withholding important moments about

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Speaker 1: And there's a valuable lesson here about telling the truth,

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Speaker 1: because everyone has a story to tell about how they

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Speaker 1: know you're withheld. You lied about it for all intents

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Speaker 1: and purposes. Some things about ourselves, yes, they are hard

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Speaker 1: to volunteer. I get that, but it's better if you

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Speaker 1: tell them before someone else does. Steve, you know how

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Speaker 1: I feel about honesty. Yes, I do. We all it's

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Speaker 1: I'm not a proponent of telling everything, nor am I

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Speaker 1: proponent of always telling the truth. But now that is

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Speaker 1: will lie any term it's needed, it required, or necessary,

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Speaker 1: I will in a heartbeat. But then this is a

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Speaker 1: letter about unnecessary lies. Let's go. He's done his research.

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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty ye old single female and I'm a

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Speaker 1: regional manager at the jewelry company. I met a handsome

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Speaker 1: and wealthy man online. We dated for seven months. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope you don't call that a success, because seven

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Speaker 1: months is not successful dating. I didn't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of faith in online dating because I thought it's the

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Speaker 1: weirdos that only wanted to hook up for sex. But

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Speaker 1: in spite of that, you went online anyway? That right there,

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Speaker 1: So that's not a true statement. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: for weirdos that only one to hear him. So I

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Speaker 1: thought also thought that all of the men online were

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Speaker 1: men online were lying on their bios. So what did

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Speaker 1: you do? You decided to join in and lie too,

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Speaker 1: But unnecessarily, turns out I was a weirdo and I

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Speaker 1: got busted. Recently, my online dating profile had that I

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Speaker 1: was a single woman that loves wine and the finer

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Speaker 1: things in life. You are a single woman, but you're

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Speaker 1: a single mother. If you had told a man about

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Speaker 1: the kid, it probably wouldn't have mattered you thirty, You

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Speaker 1: had a baby as seventeen, but your your story deeper

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Speaker 1: than that. Well, I know why you didn't tell it.

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Speaker 1: That was an unnecessary Yeah, all right, Steve, hang on,

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Speaker 1: we'll have part two of your response to today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: He has done his research. Right after this, you're listening

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Speaker 1: to Come on, Steve. Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The

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Speaker 1: subject he has done his research. I am a proponent

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Speaker 1: of life of naha. That's how you see how you

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Speaker 1: start off the segment. The truth matters. The truth matters, sir,

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Speaker 1: not all the time, and I'm a proponent of that.

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Speaker 1: But then there is such a thing as an unnecessary lie. Ye,

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened to him. You got to know

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Speaker 1: when to lie. Damn it, man, the Tory needed heartfelt lie.

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Speaker 1: You thirty year old single female and regional managers. You

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Speaker 1: got matter man, wealthy man online and you dated for

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Speaker 1: seven months. That's not a success. You didn't have a

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Speaker 1: was for weirdos that only wanted to hook up for set,

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Speaker 1: men online were trying were lying on their bio, so

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Speaker 1: you decided to join in and lie too unnecessary. Turns

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Speaker 1: out I was a weirdo and I got busted. My

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Speaker 1: online dating profile said that I was a single woman

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Speaker 1: that loved wine and the finding things in life. That's

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Speaker 1: a true statement by everybody. But you left off something

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Speaker 1: that you was not necessary. You're not a single woman.

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Speaker 1: You're a single mother. Not that wouldn't have been her

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Speaker 1: heartful to tell at all. I failed to put that

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Speaker 1: you was a single mother at seventeen. You didn't have

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Speaker 1: to say that, but you should have said you was

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Speaker 1: a single parent. Now the thirteen year old daughter lives

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Speaker 1: Now here's where you could have started being a little

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Speaker 1: bit mold better. This would have helped you. I met

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Speaker 1: I lied in her face and kept up the life

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Speaker 1: for a long time. But a long time. It ain't

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Speaker 1: seven months until his mom told him she should do

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Speaker 1: some research on me. The mother didn't say exactly where

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Speaker 1: she knew it from. Heim probably just do some research.

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Speaker 1: His mother was actually one of my counselors at the

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Speaker 1: Juvenile Justice in until I was eighteen years old. I

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Speaker 1: was in rehab as a teenager, not because I was

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Speaker 1: on drugs, but because I sold him. When you saw

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Speaker 1: this woman, you should have said, oh, fits glad, I

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Speaker 1: you thank you so much. You turned my life completely around.

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Speaker 1: I was so lost. My mom and father bandoned me,

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Speaker 1: and you miss so much to me and day and

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Speaker 1: you caused me to change my life. I'm working at

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Speaker 1: life together that I have you think, bul Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: you were wonderful to me. Man. If that man had

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Speaker 1: I saw you loving on his mama like that, you

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Speaker 1: could have turned this whole thing around. But oh now,

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Speaker 1: you unnecessary lie dude. I know you somewhere from where.

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Speaker 1: Um You're right, I ain't never seen you. You don't

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Speaker 1: know me. You got me mixed up with somebody else.

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Speaker 1: And she was in there for selling drugs. Every time

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Speaker 1: and I agreed. It was best because she knew you

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Speaker 1: wasn't nothing that seventeen year old slanging drugs. Let me

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Speaker 1: get this baby up out of here. This is my

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Speaker 1: God for mother's like that. Thank God for grandmama's around

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Speaker 1: the world that know how to pick up man Lord Heimers.

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Speaker 1: I put my past behind me and went to technical

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend did a lot of research to find out

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Speaker 1: He told me that the past is the past. But

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Speaker 1: I should have been honest. See you lie. Unnecessarily single

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Speaker 1: love wine and finding things in life. A single mother

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Speaker 1: who loves wide and the finding things like that would

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Speaker 1: not have made a difference to this brand because they

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Speaker 1: liked her. Yeah, because even when he found out you

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Speaker 1: had the baby, he to steal with you, but they're

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Speaker 1: selling the drugs. He can't do that. He can't. He

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Speaker 1: can't go with that one right there. You should have

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Speaker 1: told him to see but he was gonna bounce on

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Speaker 1: that one. A lot of dudes can't handle that, so

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Speaker 1: he broke. He told me that the path, but I

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Speaker 1: should have been honest. We had only been together for

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Speaker 1: seven months, so I was waiting seven months some minutes.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure y'all had slept together. Body, you have

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Speaker 1: a baby in nine Yeah, I was I wrong for

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Speaker 1: withholding that infolt. Yes, you worked, and to show you

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Speaker 1: how wrong it was, it has backfire and now you're

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Speaker 1: paying for the consequence. The man said, the past is

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Speaker 1: the past. But you should have been honest, because see now,

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Speaker 1: if you ain't honest about that, now he got to

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Speaker 1: question your honesty on everything. So because you are necessarily

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Speaker 1: one more time, I want iron should be reserved for mandatory,

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Speaker 1: heart felt and needed moments. All other lies are unnecessary. Wow,

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Speaker 1: ask me anything, shirt and I'll tell you how to answer.

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Speaker 1: What does it say on your shirt? Oh it's just

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Speaker 1: a message, a message, message of encouragement. You can't answer

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