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Speaker 1: this is what he has to do to protect his wife. Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: ye right, don't lead that part off. She tried to

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Speaker 1: First of all, we got to break this letter down

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Speaker 1: who's outside? Who's that to do it? So here's what

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Speaker 1: just like it. Just like it. You need to destroy

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Speaker 1: she thinks that the damnage. She thinks your wife knows

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Speaker 1: elaborate plots, Junior saying, least, but not least, let me close. Men, men,

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Speaker 1: You got booted, dudy. What you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You got booted duty. Sometimes you got to fix booted

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Speaker 1: it's booty this booty duty. You understand that I want

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Speaker 1: to pay. I wish I could just pay half my mark.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could do that. I got to pay

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Speaker 1: all of it. I got to do. You got to

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Speaker 1: I got to do it. It's my duty to do it.

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Speaker 1: my duty. All right, that's daddy duty. But this right

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Speaker 1: You understand? And you got your wife? What is to compare?

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Speaker 1: Man beside chick? Won't you? Yes? Boy, he's crazy enough

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Speaker 1: to destroy his marriage. You don't get booty dud? All right?

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