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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: We got it for you. Here It is Drawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject My man treats me like an afterthought.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been in a relationship for almost

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Speaker 1: two years, and when I think about the things this

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Speaker 1: man has shown me sexually and mentally, I am floored.

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Speaker 1: He literally takes my breath away. But there are a

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Speaker 1: few problems with our relationship. We've never spent a night together,

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Speaker 1: and I've never met his family except for his twin

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Speaker 1: daughters and their mother. What except for his twin daughters

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Speaker 1: and their mother. It was a quick high and by

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Speaker 1: when we ran into them at Target. We were not

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Speaker 1: together on our one year anniversary because of his job.

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Speaker 1: You got it now. I didn't see him on Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day because he had his daughters that night. I saw

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Speaker 1: him the next day and he gave me flowers. His

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Speaker 1: birthday is three days before Christmas, but I didn't see

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Speaker 1: him until Christmas Eve because his grandparents were in town.

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Speaker 1: There was nothing on Christmas Day, and he went to

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Speaker 1: church for New Year's Eve without me. Then he came

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Speaker 1: over for a few hours on New Year's Day to

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Speaker 1: make up for it. I don't discuss how I feel

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Speaker 1: about things for fear of running him off, because he

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Speaker 1: told me his ex girlfriend nagged him a lot. He

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Speaker 1: is always busy if I asked to see him. If

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Speaker 1: I asked to see him, but when he calls me,

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Speaker 1: I will drop everything to be with him. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why he's acting this way, and I pray it's

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Speaker 1: not what my subconsciousness telling me it is. In his defense,

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Speaker 1: he does work extreme hours. He has his kids every

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Speaker 1: other weekend, and he likes to chill with his boys

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Speaker 1: to unwind. I offered to cook dinner at his house

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Speaker 1: so we could have a heart to heart, and he

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Speaker 1: said he still needs to buy furniture and fix his

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Speaker 1: place up before I can come over. I need him

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Speaker 1: to make me a priority in his life. How can

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Speaker 1: I get this through to him? Has our relationship run

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Speaker 1: its course, He'll never make you a priority. He'll never

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Speaker 1: do that because guess what, he already has a priority

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Speaker 1: in his life. Okay, he has a priority. You should

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Speaker 1: have title and titled this letter. For two years I've

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Speaker 1: been in a relationship with a married man, because that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, think about it. You never

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Speaker 1: ever get holidays. You don't get Christmas. You don't even

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Speaker 1: get his birthday, which is three days before Christmas. You

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Speaker 1: don't get New Year's Eve. You don't get New Year's Day, well,

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Speaker 1: you get a couple of hours when he decides to

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Speaker 1: come over. You don't get Valentine's Day, that's the day

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Speaker 1: for lovers. You don't get anything. And he plagued you

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Speaker 1: so hard. He told you his ex girlfriend nagged a lot.

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Speaker 1: So now you're scared, you said, you're scared of running

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Speaker 1: him off. You're scared to tell him how you feel

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Speaker 1: and what all of this means to you, and why

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Speaker 1: doesn't he spend more time with you, and what's going on.

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Speaker 1: You're scared to bring up how you feel he puts

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Speaker 1: you off. He's always too busy for you. He's got

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Speaker 1: the kids every other weekend, or he's going out with

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Speaker 1: his boys. You can't even go over his house because

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have any furniture, really, and you make excuses

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Speaker 1: for him at every turn. You have to stop this

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Speaker 1: talking about in his defense, he's very busy, Yeah, busy

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Speaker 1: with his wife and family running away from you. You

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Speaker 1: have to stop all of this. You got to stop

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Speaker 1: seeing him. You have to stop answering his call, stop

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Speaker 1: calling him, stop everything, all of the above, because you

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Speaker 1: already know what's going on. You said it. You're subconscious.

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Speaker 1: You don't want it to be what you're subconscious is

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Speaker 1: telling you that it is. Well, that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: Listen to your self conscious, all right. Please, please don't

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Speaker 1: be stupid on this. I mean, don't be just don't be.

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Speaker 1: Get yourself together. Listen to your head and not your heart.

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Speaker 1: In this situation, the man has a wife. Steve, I

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Speaker 1: just wow, I know how long have we been doing

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Speaker 1: these letters? Yeah? How obvious does it have to be? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How many times have we given advice on this subject?

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Speaker 1: Right here? You say my man treats me like an afterthought.

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Speaker 1: That's cause that's what you are. See. You solved that

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Speaker 1: the answers in the letter. I've been in relationship for

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Speaker 1: two years and now hear what you hear you, hear

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Speaker 1: the glory of it. When I think about the thing

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Speaker 1: this man has shown me sexually and mentally, I'm floyed.

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Speaker 1: Why well, let's talk about what he didn't showed you.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what he's doing sexually, but obviously you sprung.

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Speaker 1: He literally takes my breath away. Now he go to letter.

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Speaker 1: We've got some problems though. I've never spent a n

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Speaker 1: we've never spent a night together, and I've never met

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Speaker 1: his family. What two years and you ain't been over

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Speaker 1: his house? And later on in the letters say because

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Speaker 1: he ain't got no furniture? Who take two years to

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Speaker 1: get a couch? Couch? Who they've got this place? And

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Speaker 1: in two years ain't got a couch, ain't got no

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Speaker 1: damn bad, ain't got a TV? Who did a day

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Speaker 1: house for two years without no damn cable? Where sick?

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Speaker 1: Where do he eat when he at home? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean he don't have furniture? Listen to me, And

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Speaker 1: I've never met his family except for his twin daughters

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Speaker 1: and named mother. And it was a quick hind by.

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Speaker 1: We ran into them and talking. That was an accident.

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Speaker 1: That was a damn accident. He damned or wasn't intending

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Speaker 1: for you to meet them then, but you did. We

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Speaker 1: were not together on our one year anniversary. That's because

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Speaker 1: y'all don't have anniversary. What is you? What is you

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Speaker 1: making up? Y'all don't have anniversary because of his job.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see him on Valentine's Day. That because you

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Speaker 1: ain't his Valentine. I'm gonna just give it to you

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Speaker 1: because he had his daughters that night. Who'll spend Valentine's

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Speaker 1: with the damn kids? Right, We're supposed to be having

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Speaker 1: sex on Valentine's Day? What is your kids in here?

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Speaker 1: Fault kids? Yass waving the dog crazy? I got the

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Speaker 1: rest of it for you when I come back, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even putting no punches with this. Please don't

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Speaker 1: well that Part two of Steve's responds coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour. You're listening, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap to day Strawberry letter. My man

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Speaker 1: treats me like an afterthought. Well that's caused you are,

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Speaker 1: and it's all in the damn letter. Other than when

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Speaker 1: y'all having this crazy ass sex where you didn't learn

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Speaker 1: so much you on the float. So now he literally

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Speaker 1: takes my breath away. But then we got some problems.

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Speaker 1: She ain't never spend the night at the man's house

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Speaker 1: two years? Why because he say he don't have no

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Speaker 1: furniture yet. My question is, who ain't bought a couch

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Speaker 1: in two years? Where do he eat when he at home?

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Speaker 1: He just standing in the middle of the float with

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Speaker 1: some containers. I've never met his family except for his

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Speaker 1: twin daughters and their mother. And it was a real

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Speaker 1: quick hide and by we ran into them at Target.

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Speaker 1: That was a dam accident. Oh yeah, we were not

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Speaker 1: together on our one year anniversary. That's because y'all don't

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Speaker 1: have anniversaries. I'm just going over what I went over

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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna get to the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Because of his job, I didn't see him on Valentine's Day. No,

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Speaker 1: that ain't caused his job because you didn't see him

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Speaker 1: on Valentine's daycause you ain't his Valentine because he had

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Speaker 1: his daughters that night. Who the hell spend Valentine's Night

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Speaker 1: with their kids, even if it's my week of custody.

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Speaker 1: Somebody for the watch their ass on Valentine's Night. Because

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Speaker 1: I got to go see somebody naked with a dipper

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Speaker 1: on with a bowling arrow Cupid. I didn't played Cupid

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Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day. I didn't jump out the closet with

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Speaker 1: a dipper. You have a long time ago, y'all ain't

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Speaker 1: know me. Then I was young. I had the body

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Speaker 1: for that dipper. I saw him the next day and

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Speaker 1: because he spent all the money on the purse and

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Speaker 1: the candy on the other girl. And anybody can give

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Speaker 1: you flowers, that's just stop. They sell them on the corner.

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Speaker 1: His birthday is three days before Christmas, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: see him until Christmas Eve because his grandparents was in time. Wow,

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Speaker 1: who need four days with some old ass people that

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Speaker 1: say married Christmas? Who needs full damn days with some

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Speaker 1: old people to say married Christmas? Then there was nothing

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day as jo No, no, no, that's where

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Speaker 1: you're wrong. Oh, Christmas Day was popping. It was it

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Speaker 1: you because who can leave their house on Christmas Day?

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Speaker 1: And why would he not come over to your house

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day? He got no damn frontit you. He

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Speaker 1: having fun. That's the purpose of a tree. Christmas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was nothing on Christmas Day. And he went to

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Speaker 1: church on New Year's Eve without me. That man was

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Speaker 1: not in church on New Year's Eve. He was just

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. His ass ain't go to church on

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Then he came over for a few

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Speaker 1: I bet that's when y'all was in the flow, having

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Speaker 1: some of that mind blowing set. I don't discuss how

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Speaker 1: You know why, because she was trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: about eight years. She weared his ass the deathbout coming over,

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Speaker 1: why he's acting this way. What You've been with him

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Speaker 1: two years and you don't know why he acted in

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Speaker 1: this way. He can't act no other way. He got

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Speaker 1: a family, He got a family. He can't act no

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Speaker 1: other way. I pray. It is not what my suspicion

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Speaker 1: is telling me. It is stop praying for something God

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Speaker 1: gives you to protect you. You have this thing called intuition.

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Speaker 1: It's telling you. Now you want to call it yourself conscious.

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Speaker 1: I'm prayers, not what my self conscious is telling me.

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Speaker 1: It's your intuition and it is telling you that. And

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Speaker 1: God gives it to women to protect them. And all

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Speaker 1: against what their intuition tells them, they pay for Every

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Speaker 1: woman has done it. True. Now in his defense, he

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Speaker 1: does work extreme hours? What is he a force fighter?

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Speaker 1: Come on? What job he got where he work for

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Speaker 1: stream hours? What is he in the UFC fighter? What

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Speaker 1: working all these hours and still can't buy no damn

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Speaker 1: couch bed, But he worked extreme hours. Daintest off. He

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Speaker 1: cheer with his boys on wine. I like chier with

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I want to cook dinner

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Speaker 1: coming over because that's their kitchen, right all right. I

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Speaker 1: need him to make me a part in his life.

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Speaker 1: He's not. How can I get through to him? You can't.

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Speaker 1: Is our relationship run his course? You have no relationship.

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