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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you need

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Speaker 1: if you need advice, right, I just want to put

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Speaker 1: don't feel like giving advice, so noted Shirley will always

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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now. Buckle up, hold on tight.

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Speaker 1: We got it for you. Here. It is Strawberry Leaven.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject to my husband is scared of

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Speaker 1: his family. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I've been married to a

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Speaker 1: wonderful man for almost three years. It's his second marriage

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Speaker 1: and my first. Everything is fine with us, except the

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Speaker 1: fact that his mom and his aunt don't like me.

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Speaker 1: My husband has never tried to fix this problem because

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Speaker 1: I think he's scared of the women and his family. Recently,

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Speaker 1: things got out of hand and my feelings were hurt.

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Speaker 1: Here's what happened. His mom had a sixtieth birthday party

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Speaker 1: and I didn't want to go, but my husband insisted

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Speaker 1: My husband and I sat with his family, and they

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Speaker 1: it would cause unnecessary drama. Then this big, burly aunt

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Speaker 1: My husband came behind me, and I made him take

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Speaker 1: and I knew they didn't like me when we got married.

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Speaker 1: We're not speaking and I want to go upside his

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Speaker 1: I want to cuss his aunt out too. Then I

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Speaker 1: handle this all wrong. How can we fig thing so

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Speaker 1: that this doesn't keep affecting our marriage? Please help? Wow?

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Speaker 1: All right, we meaning you and him, don't need to

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Speaker 1: fix anything. Okay, he needs to fix this. This is

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Speaker 1: his rude, ignorant family. And with marriage, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: supposed to stick with and support you. You are his wife,

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Speaker 1: Leave and cleave, that's what he's supposed to do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I were you, I probably wouldn't go to another

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Speaker 1: family outing or event that they had until he has

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Speaker 1: a family meeting and tells them to stop disrespecting you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you called him a wonderful man, wonderful man

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Speaker 1: in the opening line of your letter, and that's what

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Speaker 1: a wonderful man would do. He would talk to his family,

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Speaker 1: it so you would be comfortable. I'm sure, though, that

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Speaker 1: you left out a good portion of the details in

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Speaker 1: this letter, like why he got divorced. You know, what

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Speaker 1: was that all about? How you guys met, Why his

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Speaker 1: think there's more to this story. I think that information

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Speaker 1: would be really helpful in this situation. Uh do they

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Speaker 1: how they treat you. I definitely think that. Uh, Steve, Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where to start with this best right here, Well,

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Speaker 1: She didn't say that, she said, big and bird bet

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Speaker 1: all that, because I ain't. My husband has never tried

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Speaker 1: feelings were hurt. He was would happen. His mama had

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Speaker 1: a sixtieth birthday, So I would just like to say,

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Speaker 1: as a sixty three old man, your mama and lays

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Speaker 1: younger than I am, and they throw in parties and

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Speaker 1: that's cool, but I don't have people over the house

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that no more. I just stopped doing it.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, they still doing it, and I didn't. You

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Speaker 1: Helen A none of that. Man. You're some somebody finn

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Speaker 1: to get told to kiss something? Just hold tight. I

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Speaker 1: was not at all surprised to see his ex wife

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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. Today's Strawberry Letter title

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Speaker 1: my husband is scared of his family will be back

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

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry Letters subject my husband is scared

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Speaker 1: of his family. Well, he got a right to be.

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Speaker 1: This is second marriage. You say he's a wonderful man,

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Speaker 1: and my feelings was hurt. And here's what happened. His

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Speaker 1: his mammy had a six hun That's what this is see,

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Speaker 1: that's what you that's what you called them when they're

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Speaker 1: not listening. Your mammy didn't speak. Hey, listen, she's gonna

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Speaker 1: be too many more mammies now, Your mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy.

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Speaker 1: That's what that's what your wife trying to get underhill skin.

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Speaker 1: Your mammy, mammy, mammy, My wife and my mom ain't

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Speaker 1: I told him I will not be ignored by a

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, ain't nobody spoke to you since you've

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Speaker 1: been after party? Then you tell your husband I will

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Speaker 1: not be ignored by a child. The damn adults is

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Speaker 1: Everybody else ignores you, So why ain't I? So I

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Speaker 1: He said, I couldn't go because he would cause unnecessary drama.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sitting up in this house all these fat

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Speaker 1: Yes you did. How can we fix things? So this.

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Speaker 1: Don't keep affecting our match. I can't help you right there.

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Speaker 1: handled this all wrong? I believe you did, Shirley. I

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Speaker 1: are the aunt at big Bareley, aunt Anne, stand up

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Speaker 1: and give the toast. Let's go all the way back

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Speaker 1: to when his daughter spoke to him but ignored me. Hi, Daddy,

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Speaker 1: Hi daddy. You don't see nobody else. Mama tell me

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Speaker 1: you see me? I'm not ugly, daddy, You're not ugly.

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Speaker 1: listen to me. That's who you look like. You look

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Speaker 1: get up, Helen, say something. Watch this. I swear to

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Speaker 1: God I'll bust a captain. Say something, Helen. All right, um,

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