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Speaker 1: Well, time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen if

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Speaker 1: you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more.

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Speaker 1: Please please, please, baby, please submit to your Strawberry Letter

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Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey f M and click submit Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: We could be reading your letter live on the air,

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Speaker 1: just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now,

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Speaker 1: and before we get to you, Tommy, don't forget a

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Speaker 1: special closing remark from Steve today at forty nine minutes

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Speaker 1: after the last hour. Okay, figure it out, do the math,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be good. Don't be good, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's what he do though. Watching the movie. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: know they got Starsky and Hutch, they got Bunny and Clad.

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Speaker 1: Oh they ain't. Then, like Stephen, Jesus, the Dynamic duo

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Speaker 1: bug it up, but a whole long time we got

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Speaker 1: it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject.

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Speaker 1: I have bombs living with me, Dear Stephen, Shirley. My

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Speaker 1: friend called me one night. Her house got shot up

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Speaker 1: and she was coming to my house with her kids. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my house with her kids. I didn't question her ask

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Speaker 1: Three days later, my friend asked if her baby daddy

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Speaker 1: My friend, yeah, thirty two shots into the house. I

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Speaker 1: is not enough to cover food, toiletries, and my utilities.

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Speaker 1: The next week, her baby daddy's mother gave me an

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Speaker 1: But this is ridiculous and I want them out. I

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Speaker 1: How should I handle this? Please advise? Well, it kind

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Speaker 1: of sounds like you handled it already. You told her

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Speaker 1: it's handled to me. The friendship is over according to

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Speaker 1: your friend, though, I mean, but that is a lot

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in a two bedroom apartment. Let's

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Speaker 1: count them. It's you got your friend, her three kids.

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Speaker 1: That's four. You got the baby daddy, that's five. You

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Speaker 1: And you're upset about one hundred dollars and the four

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Speaker 1: right here. Please reindeer game with y'all. No, No, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's gonna get this letter up. Well, I can look

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Speaker 1: What let's stop, let's stop this damn nutter right here.

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Speaker 1: I want to know? What did you just say? My

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Speaker 1: she was coming to my house with her kids? No,

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Speaker 1: you're not not, No, I damn Why did your house

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Speaker 1: Dare you mean you're coming over here? I did not question. Huh.

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Speaker 1: First damn thing. When you call Steve, say, dog, a man,

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Speaker 1: what's happening? My house just got shot up? Click click Steve,

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Speaker 1: huh dog, it's me, huh, huh, what's happening, dog, my

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Speaker 1: No time for this in my life. Hold it, hold it. Oh, No,

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour. I'm living with some bumbs.

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry Letter. We'll be back right after this. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to show. All right, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. Steve.

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Speaker 1: This se no recap. We didn't even had chance to

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Speaker 1: My house just got shot up. I did not question her.

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Speaker 1: Be damned, first thing I want to know? It's whole

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Speaker 1: house got shot up? And why is you coming over here? Fall?

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Speaker 1: Has anybody been arrested? None of them question? So I

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Speaker 1: Hell naw, y'all can't come over here. But guess what

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Speaker 1: somebody five thirty two shots in today house, what it's

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Speaker 1: some more damn shooting. Gets two shoots? Your house got

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Speaker 1: more shots into his and your baby daddy. Hausing this

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Speaker 1: They finned come over there with all them shooting thirty

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Speaker 1: miss everybody next time. That's why. Now you ain't your

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Speaker 1: fat mama ain't coming over my damn house. But oh no,

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Speaker 1: I see Christianity, man, Sometimes Christianity just go too damn far,

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Speaker 1: doing her time. Custom me out. You're calling me, cussing

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Speaker 1: and shot up seventy five bullets fired, ain't nobody dead?

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Speaker 1: And now you brought all the bagg and ask people

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Speaker 1: you fitting get cussed right back out? Not as tension

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Speaker 1: if you're damn right, it's tension. It's just a project

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Speaker 1: best right sitting up in here, man, Not as tension

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Speaker 1: He got a lot there. He got numbed on hever

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Speaker 1: that jumping on your boy. You ain't jump on nobody

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Speaker 1: when they were shooting them damn bullets in that damn house,

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Speaker 1: you took the little little neat, dampy and all that.

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Speaker 1: He ain't none of that in this mention therapy. Well

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Speaker 1: told my damn friend and hunt her kids. Your fucking

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Speaker 1: She told me if I put her out our friendship

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Speaker 1: What kind of the friend draws fire to your house?

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Speaker 1: Y'all ain't friends. Friendship was over when she bought up

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Speaker 1: was no mention in the letter about his mother's weight.

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Speaker 1: If a hundred dollars don't feed you, why you think

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Speaker 1: in a how should out hand to lift? He ain't

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Speaker 1: a homelessholt. Bye y'all. Remember the dating? Yeah all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out the Strubberry Letter podcast

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Speaker 1: to you, windows play, Luther House is not a home.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this down you're listening Steve

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