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Speaker 1: It's time for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit

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Speaker 1: your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com by clicking

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Speaker 1: submit Strawberry Letter. Okay, And you never know your letter

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Speaker 1: could be read live on the air, just like this

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Speaker 1: one right here, and you never know it could be yours.

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Speaker 1: How about that? How about that? Buckle up and hold

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Speaker 1: on type We got it for you here it is

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Speaker 1: straw very letter. Subjects he and his brother's baby mama.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I was married for eleven years and

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Speaker 1: we had two daughters. The last three years of our marriage,

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Speaker 1: he met with his brother's baby mother and she got pregnant.

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Speaker 1: His brother has two sons by this woman, and my

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Speaker 1: husband is the godfather of both of his brother's sons.

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Speaker 1: His brother left left her after he caught her in

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Speaker 1: bed with another man at their house. She started popping

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Speaker 1: up at our house to talk to my husband, and

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Speaker 1: I always assumed it was to talk about his brother's

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Speaker 1: twenty and she pulled my husband aside to talk to him,

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Speaker 1: and I let them talk. She got very upset and

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Speaker 1: was crying. Then she got I rate and started pointing

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Speaker 1: her finger forcibly forcefully into my husband's head. He pulled

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Speaker 1: her close to comfort her, and I still did not

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Speaker 1: get involved. This sort of thing happened four more times,

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Speaker 1: and she was always very upset when she came to

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Speaker 1: my house. I figured she must still be suffering from

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Speaker 1: the breakup, so I stayed out of it. Then, earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, my husband got a letter from our local

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Speaker 1: child support office and I opened the letter and it

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Speaker 1: said he is the father of a baby girl, and

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Speaker 1: it listed his brother's baby mama as the mother. I

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Speaker 1: started snooping. Yeah, I started snooping through his drawers and

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Speaker 1: I found DNA test results hidden in a cigar box

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Speaker 1: in his junk drawer. This woman mysteriously had a baby,

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Speaker 1: and I had no idea she was pregnant. I sent

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Speaker 1: and he responded that he's known about them for three

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Speaker 1: years because he caught them in the act. I felt

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Speaker 1: so lost and stupid. Their daughter is two years old,

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Speaker 1: and this woman wants my kids to meet their sister,

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Speaker 1: and she wants to clear the air with me. Should

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Speaker 1: I forgive her and move on or keep ignoring her forever?

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Speaker 1: All right? Forgive them, for sure, forgive her, not for them,

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Speaker 1: not for her, but because forgiveness is for you to

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Speaker 1: be free to move on with your life. But anything

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Speaker 1: else all bets her off. Keep ignoring her forever, all right?

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Speaker 1: And don't you ever be that trusting to anyone again.

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Speaker 1: You saw what was going on, you didn't think for

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Speaker 1: a second that you know. I mean, I get that

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Speaker 1: she was distraught over her brother, but her pointing her

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Speaker 1: finger at his forehead and husband pulling her close to him,

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Speaker 1: all that's in your letter. I can't believe you didn't

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Speaker 1: suspect something was going on between them with all the

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Speaker 1: stuff they were doing. I mean, maybe because it was

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Speaker 1: done in your face and not behind your back, you

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Speaker 1: didn't think that they would be doing what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know too many women, including myself, who

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Speaker 1: would have allowed them to carry on like they were

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Speaker 1: carrying on in front of you. So I'm gonna need

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Speaker 1: you to get mad, you know, do something, not just

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Speaker 1: ask keep ignoring her forever. You know, it's okay to forgive,

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Speaker 1: but you shouldn't forget or clear the air with her

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Speaker 1: like she wants to do. If you choose not to, Okay,

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Speaker 1: do what's best for you and your children, your family. Okay,

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Speaker 1: keep her out of it. She's trash at this point,

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, what she did to you

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Speaker 1: and her husband, Steve the most confusing damn letter of

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Speaker 1: the year. I don't know, Shirley. I can't make no

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. If this is your

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Speaker 1: For you the uncle? You're the uncle? See these this

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Speaker 1: don't understand that. I don't know why more of these

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Speaker 1: at day house? Could the other man have been his brother? Well? No,

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Speaker 1: I think that that was an additional man, Steve, because

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Speaker 1: lower in the letter he said he's known about we'll

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Speaker 1: find out. I invited over for Thanksgiving in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: She pulled my husband to decide to talk to him,

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Speaker 1: do that to me. No, you're not gonna in front

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Speaker 1: none quarter what is she tappingha? So that's kind of crazy.

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Speaker 1: And I still didn't get get involved. This sort of

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Speaker 1: still be suffering from the breakup, so I stayed out

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Speaker 1: come back, all right. Part two of Steve's response coming

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Speaker 1: up at twenty three minutes after be our today's Strawberry letters,

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Speaker 1: subject he and his brother's baby mama. We'll get back

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

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Speaker 1: Let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject he and his

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Speaker 1: brother's baby mama. This reggans so confused the letter. It's

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Speaker 1: the letter, Sherley said. Let me don't even know the

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Speaker 1: damn people best right here. This lady married to her husband,

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Speaker 1: they got two kids, and then uh later three years,

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Speaker 1: the godfather to both his brother's son. You ain't uncle.

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Speaker 1: You're at damn uncle. You legally everything. You ain't uncle.

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Speaker 1: You don't need no extra titles. His brother left her

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Speaker 1: I think got the man she he caught in bed

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Speaker 1: She got up setting was crying. Then she got out

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Speaker 1: right and she started pointing her finger forcefully in my

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Speaker 1: I've got starting up to starting to put it together

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Speaker 1: for myself here now, Shirley, I didn't get involved. This

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Speaker 1: stayed out. And she was something from the breakup because

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Speaker 1: he got caught in his brother's house in that bed.

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Speaker 1: That's what I believe this letter is really all about. Then,

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Speaker 1: earlier this year, my husband got a letter from our

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Speaker 1: it was listed his brother's baby's mama as the mother.

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Speaker 1: I started snooper through his drawers and I found DNA

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Speaker 1: test result hidding in a cigar box. That's what really,

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Speaker 1: Why is you putting this in a cigar box? You

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Speaker 1: put this in a cigar box. Trop see now people

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Speaker 1: it's in a cigar box. Immediately I go to myself

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Speaker 1: I sent a picture to DNA results to my husband's

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Speaker 1: away and had this baby, but every time she came over.

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Speaker 1: She was mad at him. I felt so lost and stupid.

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Speaker 1: But this is the most confusing mess. I really ain't

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Speaker 1: biggest thing right here, I don't know what is we

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Speaker 1: right here? Mama's these are cousins, Mama's, these are brothers

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Speaker 1: and sisters. Know they're not It's they our aunts. No, no, baby,

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Speaker 1: they're not your aunts. It's these are cousins in laws?

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Speaker 1: No they not? What is they? Mama is? These are

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Speaker 1: his brothers, baby, Mama, the brother caught them. You found

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Speaker 1: the DNA report. Send it to his brother to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: on this DNA report, this is listing my husband who

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Speaker 1: I think it's son. What's going on in front of

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Speaker 1: her eyes? Why are we held? Who do you trust

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Speaker 1: in this story? You can't trust your brother in law? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he held to the code with his brother, and she

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Speaker 1: Forgiveness is for you, not the other person. But to

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Speaker 1: because you forgave somebody. Yes, Tommy, I see you. Can't

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Speaker 1: your stuff? Can't you forgiving getting your car and driving you?

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Speaker 1: She can keep ignoring her forever. What I'm not fit

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Speaker 1: to do is sit here and deal with this mess. Now.

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Speaker 1: The kids are gonna have to know each other eventually,

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Speaker 1: because that's the baby. All right, we gotta go, Please leave,

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