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Speaker 1: It is time for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you

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

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Speaker 1: please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM and

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Speaker 1: click submit Strawberry Letter. Okay, we're ready, neck, Let's go

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Speaker 1: buggle up, Hold on tight. Here it is the straw

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Speaker 1: Baby Letter. You're gonna love this letter, Steve Subject. I'm

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Speaker 1: a star, but my friends say I suck. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm forty nine years old, but I look thirty. Praise

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm an entertainer by nature. I love life

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Speaker 1: and I celebrate it every day. I'm high energy and

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Speaker 1: always the life of the party wherever I go. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I started an Instagram account to showcase my talent, and

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Speaker 1: I have a few hundred followers that like my work.

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Speaker 1: I learned from you, Steve, that it's never too late

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Speaker 1: to pursue your dreams. So here's my issue. It's never

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Speaker 1: too late. So here's my issue. My so called friends

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Speaker 1: told me that I'm not as good as I think

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Speaker 1: I am, and when they come to my shows it's

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Speaker 1: just for a good laugh. They told me that they

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Speaker 1: have been laughing at me and not with me. For

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Speaker 1: the longest time, but they didn't have the heart to

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Speaker 1: tell me. Can you imagine how I felt. I was

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Speaker 1: down and felt defeated at first, but then I said,

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Speaker 1: scrow them. I miss hanging out with my friends, but

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Speaker 1: I know in my soul that I'm bound for greatness.

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Speaker 1: What should I do now? I need support and positive input,

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Speaker 1: not a bunch of haters laughing at me. Where do

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Speaker 1: I go from here? Should I stay on track and

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Speaker 1: pursue my passion or listen to my hating friend. I

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Speaker 1: want to leave my job and pursue this full time,

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Speaker 1: so please help me. I don't want to make a

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Speaker 1: big mistake. Well, this entire letter, you didn't say what

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Speaker 1: your talent is. You didn't say if you were a singer, dancer, actress, comedian,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. You didn't say, I'm guessing possibly a comedian.

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Speaker 1: Since you say they're laughing at you and not with you.

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Speaker 1: I knew you were going to say that, Steve, she

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Speaker 1: could be a singer, though, I'm sure when they told

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Speaker 1: you that, Yes, of course you felt defeat. It not

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Speaker 1: to mention hurt, and you are right, it's never too

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Speaker 1: late to pursue your dreams. You shouldn't give up on

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Speaker 1: your dreams. Many talented people say, you know, they got

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Speaker 1: their starts later in life. And maybe your friends are

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Speaker 1: hating you. Don't know, So what I say to you

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Speaker 1: is you need to get in front of some professionals

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Speaker 1: who can really tell you, you know, if you have

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Speaker 1: some talent or not, and you can you know, then

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Speaker 1: decide if it's something you want to pursue. But please, lord,

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Speaker 1: please do not quit your job before you get a

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Speaker 1: professional opinion. Okay, because I hate to say it, but

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Speaker 1: what if your friends are right and then you quit

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Speaker 1: your job? Okay, don't do that, all right. Just get

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Speaker 1: in front of some professionals, you know, if you have

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Speaker 1: some tapes, if you have some videos and stuff, send

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Speaker 1: them around to see what they think. Some real people,

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Speaker 1: all right, who are in the business. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you ain't gonna do none of that. Later here the

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Speaker 1: professional opinion right here. Let's just gonna get this. Cut

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Speaker 1: the music off, make sure she hit me clear this up.

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Speaker 1: Let me show you line by line how this is

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Speaker 1: not good. I'm forty nine years old, but I look thirty.

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Speaker 1: Who next line, I'm an entertainer by nature? The hell

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Speaker 1: do that? Mere I'm assuming nature is an offshoot of

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Speaker 1: the word natural, meaning I'm an entertainer naturally. Now, let

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Speaker 1: me explain something to you. When you're naturally an entertainer,

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Speaker 1: it don't mean you good at it. Your ass just

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Speaker 1: like a fool around and clown and then here you come,

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Speaker 1: just what I thought. I love life. I celebrated every day.

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Speaker 1: I'm high energy. I'm always the life of the party

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Speaker 1: wherever I go. Okay, you know how many people is

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Speaker 1: that ain't making a damn dollar at it? You're ready

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Speaker 1: for you next one. I started in Instagram account showcase

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Speaker 1: my talent. I have a few hundred followers that like

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Speaker 1: my work. Excuse me, I don't know how long you've

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Speaker 1: been doing this, but a few hundred is like three

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of people that ain't got no talent

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Speaker 1: that's on Instagram liking other people that ain't got talent. Baby,

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Speaker 1: that don't mean nothing has in them. Man, you can

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Speaker 1: they buy your music or anything. She'll singing, Shelley, she'll

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Speaker 1: because she stopped singing and just start explaining stuff to people,

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Speaker 1: then jump right back into some she's like a musical movie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she like a music Oklahoma. Yeah, she'd be talking you

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Speaker 1: know what. And then it's came to me. I been

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Speaker 1: looking for love and I find dude. That's what I did, girl,

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Speaker 1: letter takes an ugly turn. I learned from you, Steve. See.

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Speaker 1: I don't like getting drug into this type mess right

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Speaker 1: here because I ain't seen you. So if you're forty nine,

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Speaker 1: I ain't definitely ain't told you you look thirty. Ah.

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Speaker 1: I'm an entertainer for real, not by nature. It's what

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Speaker 1: on here liking my work. I don't know, Lady, just

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Speaker 1: ain't looking good. So here's my issue. My soul called

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Speaker 1: friends told me I'm not as good as I think

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Speaker 1: I am, and when they come to my shows, it's

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Speaker 1: just for a good lad. They told me they've been

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Speaker 1: laughing at me and not and not with me for

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Speaker 1: the longest time. So sad, but DATA had a heart

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Speaker 1: attend when they just told you, Helen. Now I'm here

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Speaker 1: to tell you too, Sirley, talking about a professional opinion.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you right after we get

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Speaker 1: She asked for it. She needs that. Um. All right, Look,

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Speaker 1: we'll have part two of Steve's response coming up. The

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Speaker 1: subject of this letter is I'm a star, but my

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Speaker 1: friends say I suck. Uh. We're gonna get into it

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Speaker 1: at twenty three after the hour when we come back

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

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's letter. I'm a star, but my friend

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Speaker 1: sobody think they molding ad. I'm a star, but my

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Speaker 1: friends say I suck. Now, if this all this is

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Speaker 1: a contradictory, this letter goes downhill. I'm forty nine, but

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Speaker 1: I look thirty right there. I'm an entertainer by nature.

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Speaker 1: I got a few hundred followers that like my work.

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Speaker 1: You're forty nine. You got three hundred people. You're forty nine.

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Speaker 1: See Tommy Phillip comedy clubs venues sell out all over

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Speaker 1: the country. Kill selling our shows. These dudes is famous.

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Speaker 1: You can't go no, damn well and Philip a run No.

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Speaker 1: She need a professional opinion. See, you can't go no

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Speaker 1: where anybody bought. Now take it to see you. The

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Speaker 1: fact that you won't tell us what you do is

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Speaker 1: a sign that you must not do it well. I'm

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Speaker 1: an entertaining now I'm with Shelly. Now do you tell

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Speaker 1: Or is it when you start singing? It's a damn joke.

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Speaker 1: My so called friends told me I'm not as good

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Speaker 1: me that they've been laughing at me and not with

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Speaker 1: me for the longest, So you might be telling jokes

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Speaker 1: or trying to do something, but they didn't have a

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Speaker 1: heart to tell me. Can you imagine how I felt?

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Speaker 1: Un I can't relate to this story? Head, you come

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Speaker 1: to my show laughing at me. I had you had

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Speaker 1: hauling and rolling. I make people get up, run to

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Speaker 1: to sit out. I make people ball up in a knot.

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Speaker 1: I have people a face, hunting, spitting drinks out. Ain't

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Speaker 1: that what we do? Tommy Junior said, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: how I felt? Now? Hell? No, we came. I was

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Speaker 1: down and felt defeated at first, but then I said,

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Speaker 1: screw them. I misshadin out with my friends. Here go

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Speaker 1: my favorite line. But I know in my soul that

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Speaker 1: I'm bound for greatness. You know that's probably heaven. That's

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Speaker 1: probably what you bound for greatness. Yeah, you've brought up

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Speaker 1: soul and bound. Your soul is probably bound for heath,

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Speaker 1: and you probably real nice lady, so you'll sound that

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Speaker 1: you think it's bound for great Now you're just gonna

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Speaker 1: go to heaven, which is even better than being down

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Speaker 1: here and being a successful entertainer by nature. What should

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Speaker 1: I do? I need support and positive put, not a

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Speaker 1: bunch of haters laughing at me. Okay, cool, here's some

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Speaker 1: positive input. Shirley told you, whatever you do, don't quit

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Speaker 1: your damn day job. Shary told you that. I agree

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Speaker 1: with Shirley. What Sharley said, Whatever you do, don't quit

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Speaker 1: your job. You said, where do I go from here?

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Speaker 1: Should I stay on track and pursue my passion? You

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Speaker 1: are not on track. You ain't got no track. You

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Speaker 1: got three hundred likes on Instagram, don't don't base them

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Speaker 1: on that or listen to my hating friends. I want

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Speaker 1: you do? Surely said, whatever you do, don't you quit

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Speaker 1: your damn job. You're gonna starve. Let me explain to

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Speaker 1: you what you're gonna do. Listen to me. If you

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Speaker 1: What you're listening to me, You're gonna have to find

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Speaker 1: yourself a grocery car. Gotta have that cart. You gotta

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Speaker 1: gonna have to find your air condition that will put in.

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Speaker 1: Then you're gonna need to start left and clothes and

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Speaker 1: after a while. And then you're gonna be sitting somewhere

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Speaker 1: not gonna be showish you, because all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: your ass is fitting to look every bit of sixty nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what's happening. She says she learned

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Speaker 1: from you. It's from me. Learn this from me. Learn

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Speaker 1: it's never too late to pursue your dream. Just change

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Speaker 1: your dream. You're not fitna be in a taking if

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Speaker 1: you're forty nine and you ain't made a check. First

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Speaker 1: of all, they don't give fifty year old people record deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah she's a singer. Yeah. See, if you're a singer,

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna give your record deal. Because they give

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Speaker 1: you record deals for three records. There ain't even no

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Speaker 1: promise you're gonna be here to do the third album.

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Speaker 1: Oh hell, I'm just trying to tell you how they

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Speaker 1: don't do it. Now listen to me. Now, you got

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Speaker 1: this grocery cart next to your bust. Stop a't he

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Speaker 1: talking to yourself? And your friends are driving by timeout?

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Speaker 1: Damn you know what that sho don't look like her.

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Speaker 1: It can't be because it ain't that you didn't gain weight.

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Speaker 1: It's just you got everything you own, everything you own,

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Speaker 1: you got it on. Now listen to me. Stop this.

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Speaker 1: You're not offending being non stop. She already is in

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Speaker 1: your mind. Just be a great person. Try to make

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Speaker 1: it to heap. Your reward is in heaven, because it

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Speaker 1: ain't down at the feeling we gotta go. Email at

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Speaker 1: your Instagram as your thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter and

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