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Speaker 1: gonna read this one right here, right now, and you

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Speaker 1: never know it could be yours. That's right. Please tell

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Speaker 1: me this time for the Strawberry Letter with my good

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Speaker 1: friend Shirley Strawberry. Thank you, my good friend, Junior. Subject

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Speaker 1: Did I make it all up? Do? Stephen? Shirley my

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Speaker 1: boyfriend and I are in our early thirties and we've

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Speaker 1: been together for two years. We've been on a game

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Speaker 1: off again for the past year of our relationship because

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Speaker 1: he gets upset over the smallest things. I assumed he

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Speaker 1: was cheating on me when we'd argue and not speak

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Speaker 1: to each other. On our last breakup, we were apart

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Speaker 1: for a month, so I took it upon myself to

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Speaker 1: be the bigger person and try to fix things with him.

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Speaker 1: He had been living with his cousin in a town

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Speaker 1: house about five miles from my house. I went by

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Speaker 1: the house and they had moved. I called my boyfriend

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Speaker 1: and his phone was no longer in service. I got

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Speaker 1: mad all over again, and I thought he'd taken the

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Speaker 1: games too far this time. A few weeks passed and

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Speaker 1: I really missed him, so I rode by his mother's

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Speaker 1: house and I didn't see his car, so I kept going.

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Speaker 1: I noticed that he had untagged himself in two group

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Speaker 1: pictures I posted of us on my Instagram page. My

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Speaker 1: on social media. He hates taking pictures and always dodges

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Speaker 1: to take pictures with him, And now I know why.

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Speaker 1: When he went missing, my intuition finally kicked in and

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Speaker 1: I found his exus Facebook page. She lived in another

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Speaker 1: city and so does he with her and their newborn son.

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Speaker 1: They got married two years ago. According to Facebook, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Around the time I met him, I ran to my

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Speaker 1: mother for comfort, but she was no help. She said

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Speaker 1: that he gave me signs all along, that he's married.

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Speaker 1: But I made up a fairytale relationship in my head.

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Speaker 1: But he said he loved me all the time, and

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Speaker 1: we had unprotected intercourse. He was mine and I was his.

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Speaker 1: How could I possibly make it all up? What do

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Speaker 1: I do now? Well, I mean, you know, what do

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Speaker 1: you do now? I mean you move on with your life.

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Speaker 1: And as hard as that sounds, that's what you have

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Speaker 1: to do. Two words, It's over. It's over. He's married

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Speaker 1: with a newborn. There's nothing else to discuss. Don't be

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Speaker 1: mad at him, because, like your mom said, he gave

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Speaker 1: you signs all along, But you were so disillusioned, so

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Speaker 1: caught up, you made up a fairy tale relationship in

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Speaker 1: your head. You ignored all the red flags. We talk

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Speaker 1: about this all the time on this show. There are

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Speaker 1: red flags. You cannot ignore them, but you did. They

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Speaker 1: were there from the very beginning. You just made the

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Speaker 1: choice to ignore them. You said, finally your intuition kicked

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Speaker 1: in and you finally paid attention to you know, and

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Speaker 1: you got what he was saying, but your mom gave

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Speaker 1: you what you needed in that moment. You need it

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Speaker 1: tough love. So you gotta stop calling him, stop writing

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Speaker 1: by his mom's house, his old town house. You gotta

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Speaker 1: stop looking for him on Facebook and stuff. You gotta

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Speaker 1: let this stuff go. You gotta let him go. You

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Speaker 1: don't need to talk to him, You don't need to

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Speaker 1: He already gave you that closure when he went back

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Speaker 1: to his wife and with his child, so you need

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Speaker 1: to block him. Anything other than that after what he

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Speaker 1: did is just desperation on your part. And trust me,

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Speaker 1: you'll get over this. You will many have and you

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Speaker 1: will too. Steve, you know this letter is different. Did

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Speaker 1: I make it all up? Well? You know what I

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Speaker 1: chose to do with this letter, Shirley, was. I decided

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Speaker 1: to talk about what she didn't mention. Okay, because this

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Speaker 1: letter is full of what she didn't mention. My boyfriend

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Speaker 1: and I in our early thirties and we've been together

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Speaker 1: many times, Shirley, that men don't do millions We don't

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Speaker 1: do off. No, we own with somebody. If we off

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Speaker 1: been on again, off again for the past you in

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Speaker 1: That's just his out. You ain't cooking right. He got

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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. It's what she's not saying.

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Speaker 1: saying is you didn't assume he was cheating with me

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Speaker 1: on our last breakup. We were a part for a month. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had to go get it together now. So I

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Speaker 1: took it abond myself to be a bigger person to

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Speaker 1: had been living with his cousin in a town house

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Speaker 1: about five miles from my house. I went by the

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Speaker 1: house and they had moved. He never lived at He

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Speaker 1: was using his cousin's house. Girl, when I come back,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you the rest of it. Sherlon

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Speaker 1: already tell you what you needed to do. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna help you get the facts. All right, Steve, We'll

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Speaker 1: have part two of your response coming up at twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry letter, subject did

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Speaker 1: I make it all up? We'll be back right after this.

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

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letter, the subject I make it

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Speaker 1: all up? Yeah, your mother told you this, but you

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Speaker 1: don't listen. Relationship she having with a boyfriend two years

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Speaker 1: That's I've told women. We don't do off. We just

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Speaker 1: do own. If we're offered you the cause we're own

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Our last breakup, they broke up for a month,

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Speaker 1: person to try to fix things with him. He had

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Speaker 1: been living with his cousin in the town house about

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Speaker 1: five miles from my house. No, he wasn't he was

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Speaker 1: so when you went by, they had moved. The cousin moved.

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Speaker 1: called my boyfriend and his phone was no longer in service.

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Speaker 1: He didn't got he didn't had to get rid of

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Speaker 1: he'd taking the games too far this time once again,

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Speaker 1: So you was in a gamesmanship, not a relationship. In

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Speaker 1: a gamesmanship, not a relationship. A few weeks past and

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Speaker 1: I really missed him, So I rode by his mama's

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Speaker 1: I noticed he had untagged himself in two group pictures

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Speaker 1: I had posted of us on Instagram. Yeah, see, he

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Speaker 1: He got busted by his wife. My profile is private

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Speaker 1: because his wife will find out. Girl. He hates taking

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Speaker 1: pictures and always dodges my phone when I remember I'm

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Speaker 1: He can't be in no picture. He ain't even famous,

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Speaker 1: and he doing that right, And now I know why Dan,

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Speaker 1: the light bulb went off and Dumby head when he

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Speaker 1: went missing. My intuition finally kicked in. It finally kicked in. No,

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Speaker 1: it didn't, lady, it been kicking in. You just ignored

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Speaker 1: and tried to make something of that. You've been in

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Speaker 1: the owner again off again relationship for the past year.

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Speaker 1: He gets upset over the smallest things. Here's your other intuition.

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Speaker 1: I assumed he was cheating on me when we'd all

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Speaker 1: getting not speak to each other all. That was intuition.

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Speaker 1: I called my boyfriend's phone and he was no longer

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Speaker 1: I thought he'd taking the games too far this time.

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Speaker 1: That was intuition. Then he had untagged himself in two

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Speaker 1: group pictures I posted on my Instagram. That was intuition.

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Speaker 1: on social media. That was intuition. He takes pictures and

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Speaker 1: She lives in another city and soldiers. He with her

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Speaker 1: according to Facebook. That's right around the time I met him.

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Speaker 1: I ran to my mother for comfort, but she was

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Speaker 1: no help. She said. He gave me all the signs

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Speaker 1: all along that he was married, but I made up

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Speaker 1: the course. He was mine and I was his. How

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Speaker 1: You just read this letter to us, and you said

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Speaker 1: he was mine and I was his? How could I

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Speaker 1: possibly make this up? You tell us your your your

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Speaker 1: I do now? What shure he hold you? What do

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Speaker 1: you do now? You got to move on? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you have nothing. You got to move on. He's married,

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Speaker 1: he got a family, He lived out of town. You

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Speaker 1: You can't take no pictures with him. He don't want

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Speaker 1: to take pictures with you. He's married. What do I

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Speaker 1: do now? You move on? It's nothing else for you

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Speaker 1: to do. I'm sorry. This is the way it works.

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Speaker 1: Stop writing by his mom's house, that's for sure, because

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Speaker 1: mama don't give it to Your mama didn't care, right,

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Speaker 1: His mama could give lesson than she's interested in. Right,

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Speaker 1: None of the mama's is sitting a kid. Your old

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Speaker 1: mama didn't kire no. She told you you made it up.

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Speaker 1: It was in your head, a fantasy relationship, So stop

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Speaker 1: making up stuff without facts. So what you had unprotected

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Speaker 1: in it? He had it with that other girl too,

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Speaker 1: and she got a baby. Brenda kud a baby. Pick

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