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Speaker 1: A Strawberry Letter, Thank nephew. Subject my mom and my

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Speaker 1: baby daddy. Dear Stephen Shirley. I have known my baby

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Speaker 1: daddy since high school. When I was twenty, I got

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Speaker 1: pregnant and we moved in together. But he cheated a lot,

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Speaker 1: so when my son was six, we broke up and

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Speaker 1: my mom offered to let him live with her temporarily.

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Speaker 1: My son is sixteen now and my baby daddy still

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Speaker 1: lives with my mom. My mom has seven sisters that

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Speaker 1: are very messy and they're They've always joked with my

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Speaker 1: mom about having a fine young man living with her.

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Speaker 1: One of my aunts has said for years is that

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Speaker 1: she's one hundred percent sure that my mom and baby

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Speaker 1: daddy are messing around. She swears that my mom got

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Speaker 1: drunk at a house party and went into the bathroom

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Speaker 1: with my baby daddy for close to twenty minutes and

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Speaker 1: came out bragging about how good he was. Over the years,

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Speaker 1: I heard stuff like, how's your mama and baby Daddy.

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Speaker 1: One of my older aunts finally told me the truth,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't want to believe it. She said that

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Speaker 1: my mom told her she really likes my baby daddy

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Speaker 1: and it's way more than a sugar mama thing. She said,

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Speaker 1: my mom feels terrible about it, and she's not going

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Speaker 1: to stop having sex with him or put him out

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Speaker 1: the short A short while after that, my baby daddy

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Speaker 1: came over to see our son and he had been drinking.

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Speaker 1: They were playing video games and my baby daddy's phone rang.

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Speaker 1: My son heard him say I love you too, baby,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be home after I beat your grandson in

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Speaker 1: one more game. My son tried to fight his daddy

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Speaker 1: and I had to get between them. My baby daddy

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Speaker 1: told my son he teach him about being a man

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Speaker 1: later and how stuff like this just happened. I tell

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Speaker 1: my son that's not what manhood is about, and how

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Speaker 1: do I fix this for my son? I'm hurt too.

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Speaker 1: But I'm more worried about him. This is really sad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a horrible, horrible situation here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: your your mom did the ultimate betrayal. And I could

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Speaker 1: see why you didn't want to hear the truth because

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Speaker 1: you probably already suspected in any way, but you didn't

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Speaker 1: want to hear it because this is your mother. It's unthinkable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know you're you're beyond mad at this point.

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Speaker 1: I know you want to fight her. You want to

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Speaker 1: fight your mom, and you probably would if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: your mom. I mean, this is not what a mom

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Speaker 1: does to her daughter. This mom don't do this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and and to her grandson for that matter. I mean,

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Speaker 1: both of them are to blame. Of course, the baby daddy,

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Speaker 1: oh my god. But it's just it's hard to get

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Speaker 1: over this kind of hurt. It's hard. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if you and the baby daddy were no longer together,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't even matter at this point. It's just wrong. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you told your son right when you said that this

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Speaker 1: is not what manhood is about. His father is a

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Speaker 1: very poor example of manhood. How can he date his

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Speaker 1: son's grandmother and his mother? I mean, stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. So he told him wrong. So

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Speaker 1: you know, he's teaching his son that men have no

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Speaker 1: control over themselves or they just you know, if it's okay,

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Speaker 1: if they date their mom and their grandmother, that's okay. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not okay. It's just really wrong. You you know.

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Speaker 1: My suggestion is to, I don't know, get your son

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Speaker 1: to a mentor, a real good mentor a good example

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Speaker 1: he could show them what it really is all about.

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Speaker 1: It's not what his father father is talking about, not

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Speaker 1: this mess, but I mean that. That is my suggestion

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Speaker 1: to you talk more to your son, you know, about

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Speaker 1: this situation, because I'm sure he's upset, and why would

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Speaker 1: his grandmother, you know, this is just a mess. But

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Speaker 1: I would look into a mentor some man that will

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Speaker 1: for your son. Steve Okay Sherley, I agree. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I have so many problems in this letter. At first

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Speaker 1: I was going to joke about it, but then it

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Speaker 1: I don't care what y'all do, but I do care

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Speaker 1: because men, we've you just have to do a better

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Speaker 1: job of setting examples for our sons, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's for the little things. It's okay to tell your

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Speaker 1: That has to be a balance. You know. Listen, you

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Speaker 1: got pregnant when you was twenty with your high school sweetheart,

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Speaker 1: and y'all moved in together. But he cheated a lot.

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Speaker 1: The letter just takes a turn right away. So when

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Speaker 1: my son was six, we broke up and my mom offered,

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Speaker 1: and my mom offered to let him live with her temporarily.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold up, I'm confused. You and your

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Speaker 1: boyfriend break up and you have a baby, your mom

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Speaker 1: offers to let him come live with her. Why aren't

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Speaker 1: you and the boy go live with your mama? That's

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Speaker 1: normally high go in the normal scope of things. The

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Speaker 1: would have some help, and you know, and let this

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Speaker 1: dude fend for herself. That's all that was, so I

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Speaker 1: was confused by that. Well, my son is now sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and my baby daddy still lived with his mom. My

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Speaker 1: mom has seven sisters. They're very messing. They've always joked

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Speaker 1: with her. Excuse me, he left when he was six.

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Speaker 1: Your son, sister, he been at your mama house ten years? Right?

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Speaker 1: Ten years? Who need ten years to get on their feet? Who? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: anybody can pull it together in ten years too. I'm confused.

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Speaker 1: I have more when we come back. But this is

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Speaker 1: tri Yeah, it really is bad. It's bad. All right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: We'll have part two of your response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour. My mom and my

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Speaker 1: baby Daddy. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Steve Morning Show. All right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letters subject my mom and my

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Speaker 1: baby Daddy. Well, this young lady twenty years old, got

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Speaker 1: He cheated a lot, so when their son was six,

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Speaker 1: they broke up and her mother offered to let him

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Speaker 1: live with her temporarily. Like I said earlier, that's backward

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Speaker 1: usually the girl and the baby go stay with one

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Speaker 1: assistance and let the guy go feed for himself. That

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Speaker 1: was backwards already. Well, my son is sixteen nine. My

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Speaker 1: baby Daddy's still live with his mom, with your mama,

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Speaker 1: that's ten years. He been at your mama's house for

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Speaker 1: ten years now. If she was honestly trying to help

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Speaker 1: him out in the beginning, she's been helping him for

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Speaker 1: ten years. Has she been helping her daughter and her

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Speaker 1: grandchild or she just helping him? This sucks, man. Now,

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Speaker 1: my mom has seven sisters that are very messy, and

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Speaker 1: they've always joked with Mama Mom about having a fine

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Speaker 1: young man living with her. Well, let me throw this in.

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Speaker 1: If your mom got seven sisters that are messy, ain't

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Speaker 1: your Ain't your mamma wanted your sisters? Ain't she from

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Speaker 1: a messy family? Starting to sound like the story to me.

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Speaker 1: If all seven of your sisters is messy, how does

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Speaker 1: she skip the messiness? She didn't? What are your aunts

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Speaker 1: has saying for years? And she's one of hundred percent

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Speaker 1: sure that my mom and baby daddy I'm messing around? Well,

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Speaker 1: he'd been there ten years. Who living at this house

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Speaker 1: for ten years? And what now? She swears that my

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Speaker 1: mom got drunk out of house party right there. See,

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Speaker 1: we were in a family that's still throwing house party.

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Speaker 1: You see where this is going. There's no progression in

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Speaker 1: this story at all. Your mama got drunk out of

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Speaker 1: house party. How old are you to stop going to

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Speaker 1: got no upside And came and went to the then

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Speaker 1: to twenty minutes, came out bragging about how good he was.

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Speaker 1: You saw Boomerang. You you saw the movie when the

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Speaker 1: late grade Witherspoon came out that bare room with that

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Speaker 1: like how your mom and baby daddy. One of my

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Speaker 1: older aunts finally told me the truth, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to believe her. What is it? You didn't want

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Speaker 1: and you didn't even want to believe it. Why he's

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Speaker 1: been over that ten years? She said? Your mom told

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Speaker 1: her she really likes my baby daddy, and it's more

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Speaker 1: than the sugar mama thing. Okay, so she taking care

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Speaker 1: of this boy, she said, My mom feels terrible about it,

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Speaker 1: See there's no progression in this story. Your baby daddy

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Speaker 1: with your mama. Yo, boy, he'd been over that ten years.

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Speaker 1: He thirty four. You got pregnant at twenty, Your husband

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Speaker 1: Your husband, thirty six years old, was six. Now the

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Speaker 1: live with your mama. He'd been over that ten years.

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Speaker 1: You was pregnant at twenty. Your man is board. Your

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Speaker 1: At thirty six, still drinking, still living home with your mama.

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Speaker 1: They playing vidego games. My baby daddy phone rang. Your son,

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Speaker 1: who is older, now heard him say I love you too, baby,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be home after I'll beat your grandson and

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Speaker 1: Why because your son know that's wrong. However, all your

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Speaker 1: I had to get between him. My baby. Daddy told

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Speaker 1: When is he gonna teach him? He don't know. So

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Speaker 1: this is a trifling mama. This is a trifling baby daddy.

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Speaker 1: And so Shirley is correct. You gotta get a male

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Speaker 1: mentor in front of this young man. And it's a

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Speaker 1: damn shame that he gonna teach him about being a

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Speaker 1: man later. And how stuff like this just happens. It

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Speaker 1: don't just keep happening. At one point we on purpose.

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Speaker 1: You can write to having sex off with your mama's

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Speaker 1: your stepmama one time, but unless you've been drunk continuously

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Speaker 1: for ten years, you ain't had a sober moment in

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Speaker 1: ten years to rethank this. I told my son that's

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Speaker 1: not what manhood is about. You are absolutely correct. How

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Speaker 1: do I fix this for my son. I'm hurt too,

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Speaker 1: but I'm more worried about him. Get your son around

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Speaker 1: this situation, and so do you. You may need counseling

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