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Speaker 1: share you I cannot with him subject I went back

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Speaker 1: to the streets too soon. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a

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Speaker 1: thirty one year old single female and I just broke

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Speaker 1: up with my boyfriend after two years of dating. I

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Speaker 1: gave him all I could in our two years of dating,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't show up for me in a way

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Speaker 1: that proved to me that he wanted to get married.

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Speaker 1: He kept on going to the club and hanging out

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Speaker 1: in the strip club. I couldn't get him to spend

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Speaker 1: with fighting for his attention. A week after we broke up,

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Speaker 1: I had a party in a private room at a

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Speaker 1: hookah lounge. He popped up and had a problem with

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Speaker 1: me being out so soon there was a life size

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Speaker 1: picture of me in a corner with the words back

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Speaker 1: to the Streets on it. This is what he was

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Speaker 1: most offended by. He told me that he had hopes

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Speaker 1: of us getting back together, but this showed him that

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Speaker 1: I was really done with him. I was tipsy and

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Speaker 1: happy that he happened to come to the club that

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Speaker 1: end relationship. A few days after that, his mother called

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Speaker 1: me and said that her son, my ex boyfriend, felt

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Speaker 1: some kind of way about me celebrating our breakup. I

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Speaker 1: was respectful to his mother, but I felt justified in

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Speaker 1: my actions. Now, a few months later, I do feel

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Speaker 1: bad about claiming the streets, since nothing is in the

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Speaker 1: streets and men really don't want to commit to women nowadays.

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Speaker 1: I called to apologize eyes for embarrassing him, and he

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Speaker 1: he's no longer interested. My mom said, he's using my

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Speaker 1: back to the Streets party as a way out because

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Speaker 1: he never because he wasn't ever planning to make me

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Speaker 1: a priority, and he was going to string me along

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Is my mom. Right, should I

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Speaker 1: stop asking him to come back? What? Yes, you should

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Speaker 1: stop asking him to come back. He told you he

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Speaker 1: was no longer interested. You felt justified in your actions.

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Speaker 1: You wanted to leave this dead in relationship. What has happened? Yes,

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Speaker 1: listen to your mom. Leave that man along. You were out,

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Speaker 1: you were free and clear, you were happy. Now you're

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Speaker 1: feeling guilty and feeling sorry for him. Believe me, that's

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Speaker 1: all it is. His ego wants you back just to say,

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Speaker 1: or at that time anyway, just to say he could

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Speaker 1: get you back if you go back. He'll only do

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Speaker 1: the same thing to you. But remember he said he's

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Speaker 1: not interested. He hasn't changed. You're on your own and

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Speaker 1: your own. Mom said that he was never planning to

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Speaker 1: make you a priority. Believe her. He showed you in

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Speaker 1: his actions. All he wants is revenge. Right now, you

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Speaker 1: have to remember why you left him in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Remember what you said in the letter. He spent all

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Speaker 1: of his time at the strip club. He had no

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Speaker 1: time for you, especially on the weekends. He did this

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Speaker 1: for two all years. So please wake up. Don't fall

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Speaker 1: back into that old pattern you were in with him.

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Speaker 1: You were constantly fighting for his attention. Just go on

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Speaker 1: with your life. Forget him. He is no longer worth

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Speaker 1: your time. You're still worried about him and what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: You won't have time to meet someone new, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: let him go by Steve. Wow, easy letter to do.

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Speaker 1: She easy letter to do. Yeah, I went back to

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Speaker 1: the streets too soon. My response to that time is no,

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Speaker 1: you didn't. It's real easy. It's just amazing. I love

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Speaker 1: the way men switch it, flip it. I love it,

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Speaker 1: but it's even more of me amazing how when a

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Speaker 1: woman allows it because of your kind heart and always

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Speaker 1: trying to fix men and heal everybody, but shoot, you

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Speaker 1: wind up being the most injured all the time. If

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Speaker 1: women focused on fixing themselves like they focused on fixing others,

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Speaker 1: that would be less damaged women in the world. Man,

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Speaker 1: don't let a man tell you twice he don't want you.

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with this? Now? You're thirty one year

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Speaker 1: a single female. You broke up with your boyfriend up

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Speaker 1: he do? You gave him all you could for two

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Speaker 1: years a day. He didn't show up for me in

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Speaker 1: a way to prove that he wanted to give him

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Speaker 1: getting married, kept on to the club, kept hanging out

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Speaker 1: for his attention. It took you two years to come today,

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Speaker 1: but you did it in congratulations. A week after we

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Speaker 1: private room at a Hookah Lowns. He popped up and

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Speaker 1: could you get over me so quickly? Well, I've had

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Speaker 1: two years to get over you. You ain't been coming

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Speaker 1: here on the weekends. Now I'm throwing a private party

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Speaker 1: in the private room at the Hooka Lowns on week

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Speaker 1: end night. Now you're on a weekend. You're available now.

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Speaker 1: You know that was a life size picture of me

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Speaker 1: in a corner with the words back to the streets

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Speaker 1: on okay, cool, great affirmation, positivity, funny, back to the street.

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Speaker 1: That is what he was most offended by. You know

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Speaker 1: why he was most offended by because he from the street.

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Speaker 1: He in the street. He knows what's in the street

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Speaker 1: because he out there in him. He told me he

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Speaker 1: had hopes of us getting back together, but this showed

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Speaker 1: me that I was really done with him. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And we wasn't really together though, right, we don't get

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Speaker 1: back together, so you can ignore me for two more years.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hang on, Steve, we'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the

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Speaker 1: hour today Strawberry letter, subject I went back to the

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Speaker 1: streets too soon. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening show, All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today Strawberry letter. The subject is I went back to

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Speaker 1: the streets too soon. Well, you didn't. Thirty one year old,

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Speaker 1: You dated a boy for two years. You gave him

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Speaker 1: everything you could for two years. He stayed in the streets,

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Speaker 1: kept going the clubs, kept going the strip clubs. Never

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Speaker 1: wanted to spend time with you on the weekends. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't get him to spend time with you, and you

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Speaker 1: was done with fighting for his attention. Then a week

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Speaker 1: after y'all broke up, you threw a party in the

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Speaker 1: Pride Room matter who can lounge, had a big picture

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Speaker 1: of yourself up in the corner, says back to the street.

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Speaker 1: He popped up, which he ain't been popping up on weekends.

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Speaker 1: Where his ass come. He propped up at the party,

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Speaker 1: and then he said he couldn't believe he had a

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Speaker 1: hope that you always gonna get back together, but this

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Speaker 1: showed him that I was really done with him. He

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Speaker 1: didn't say I was wanting to be committed to you,

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to treat you right. Finally, all he

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Speaker 1: And all that means is I'm gonna continue to treat

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Speaker 1: want now you to be able to accept it more.

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Speaker 1: I was tipsy and happy that he happened to come

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Speaker 1: to the club that night and saw me celebrating free

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Speaker 1: from a daddy relationship. And the reason you was happy

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Speaker 1: and admitting it, it's because you was tipsy. You probably

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Speaker 1: if that makes you see what it is, better than

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Speaker 1: go ahead. A few days after that, his mama called

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Speaker 1: me and said that her son, my ex boyfriend, felt

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Speaker 1: some kind of way about me celebrating our break up.

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Speaker 1: I was respectful to his mother, but I felt justified

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Speaker 1: in my action right and you were. But his mama

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Speaker 1: now everybody around him got the call on him. You

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Speaker 1: got to call on him. His damn mammy got to

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Speaker 1: Give a damn about chill mammy calling me saying that

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Speaker 1: ragging ass some Why don't you ask him why we

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Speaker 1: broke up? Calling me telling how he's feeling some kind

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Speaker 1: of way about celebrating our break up. Hen we couldn't

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Speaker 1: celebrate the relationship, might as well celebrate the break up

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Speaker 1: now a few months later, I do feel bad about claiming.

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Speaker 1: The street says nothing is in the street, and men

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Speaker 1: really don't want to commit to women nowadays. You had

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Speaker 1: I called to apologize for embassing him, and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: trying to hear it. Man, this dude is manipulator at

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Speaker 1: the highest level right here. He is a manipulator. So

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Speaker 1: now he gonna he gonna make you crawl? How are

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Speaker 1: you sure you ain't gotta apologize for a damn thing

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Speaker 1: in bassing him? First of all, you didn't invite him

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Speaker 1: to the party. He popped up and saw you back

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Speaker 1: in the street sign. Yeah, my mother said he's using

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Speaker 1: my back to the Street party as a way out

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Speaker 1: because he wasn't ever planning to make me a proud

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Speaker 1: and he was gonna string me along for another for

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Speaker 1: a long time. It's my mom, right, Your mother is

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Speaker 1: one thousand percent? Yes, Oh, but I got news from here.

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Speaker 1: Should I stop asking him to come back now? You

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Speaker 1: need to stop being stupid, ask him to come back

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Speaker 1: to do what you didn't like the two years you

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Speaker 1: to stay in the club, to go to strip clubs

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Speaker 1: want that for what? Do I stop being? Stop being stupid?

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Speaker 1: He wants you back to continue to going along with

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Speaker 1: gonna do even more. You be a fool to go

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Speaker 1: back to this manipulation now. He is my best point

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Speaker 1: for you. His mama called and told you her son

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Speaker 1: celebrating y'all's break up. Yo. Mama called and said he's

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Speaker 1: using your back to the Street party as a way out,

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Speaker 1: and he was never planning to make your broad and

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Speaker 1: he was gonna strain you alone for a long time. Now,

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Speaker 1: you had two different calls from two different mamas. One

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Speaker 1: of the mothers only has her son's interests at heart, yea,

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Speaker 1: And one of the mothers has his her daughter's interests

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Speaker 1: at heart. Which one sound better to your right? Let's

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Speaker 1: see which one sound better to you? Two mothers called you?

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Speaker 1: Which one of these mothers called you? On? Yo behad? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know if hum, if this boy's mama was real, right,

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Speaker 1: you know what she just said. You know what, I know,

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Speaker 1: Deontay ain't been doing you right. And I know Deontay

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Speaker 1: has made some mistakes, but I think he might have

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Speaker 1: come to his senses. And you know he you a

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Speaker 1: beautiful girl, and I love being around you. Just talk

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Speaker 1: behind this cause Deontay just sitting around moping, he ain't

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Speaker 1: been the same. That's what the phone call that could

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Speaker 1: have made sense to you, right, But this other phone

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Speaker 1: call she made quit taking his health was call. But

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Speaker 1: he himself told, tell your mammy, don't call me no

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Speaker 1: damn mo oh love it or better yet? Yeah, your mama,

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