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Speaker 1: Thanking a for you subject. I'm falling for him, not

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Speaker 1: his daddy. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm fifty six years old

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Speaker 1: and my husband will turn seventy five in May. My

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Speaker 1: husband is a great provider and great daddy, but I

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Speaker 1: don't get butterflies when I'm with him like I did

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Speaker 1: in the beginning. I will admit he wooed me with

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Speaker 1: expensive things and I was caught up at first. We

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Speaker 1: met and got married all within a year. I didn't

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Speaker 1: snap back into reality until I met my step son

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Speaker 1: at our wedding a year ago. Now I want my

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Speaker 1: step son more than I want my husband. He's a

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Speaker 1: fifty two year old bachelor and a big flirt. He

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Speaker 1: comes over to the house and we have a good

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Speaker 1: time together. While my husband sits in a den glued

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Speaker 1: to the TV. My step son and I enjoy the

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Speaker 1: same wines, foods, movies, and podcasts. We've fallen asleep together

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Speaker 1: on the couch watching TV, and my husband doesn't even

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Speaker 1: see what's happening between us. My stepson said he hopes

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Speaker 1: he can meet a woman like me that's smart, pretty

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Speaker 1: and sexy after age fifty. I reminded him that he's

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Speaker 1: only a few years younger, and he said, I look

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Speaker 1: better than most of the ladies his age. I made

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Speaker 1: up an excuse to have lunch with him yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: told him I needed help planning his dad's birthday party,

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Speaker 1: so he agreed to meet me. He was so handsome

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Speaker 1: and he smells so good. His hug was an a

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Speaker 1: normal step son hug, and we blushed when the waiter

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Speaker 1: called us mister and missus king. It's obvious that we

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Speaker 1: look good together. After lunch, he texted me to say

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Speaker 1: that he had a great time, and he said that

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Speaker 1: I give great hugs. I wanted to tell him I

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Speaker 1: give great everything, but I didn't. Should I cut the

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Speaker 1: bs and tell him I'm falling for him, or should

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Speaker 1: I wait so he can make the first move. Please stop,

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Speaker 1: please stop this, right please? I mean really, this is

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Speaker 1: wrong on so many levels. And you know this that

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Speaker 1: may sound like judgment for me, and I don't even

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Speaker 1: care about that. It's not judgment. It's just a simple

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Speaker 1: matter of right and wrong. Family is and should be

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Speaker 1: off limits. And why is it that we always want

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Speaker 1: something we can't have? Seriously, come on now, lady, this

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Speaker 1: man is your husband's son. He's your husband's son. And yes,

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Speaker 1: your husband is seventy five and much older than you,

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Speaker 1: but he's still alive. He's still your husband. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing? At least give your husband the respect he deserves.

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Speaker 1: Do not do this to him. Don't do this to

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Speaker 1: his son. His son is out of line too. You

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Speaker 1: need to sit down. But you need to sit down.

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Speaker 1: I don't like any of this. I don't like what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. You need to leave your stepson alone and

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Speaker 1: stop doing this to your husband. This is so crazy.

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Speaker 1: Right here, this makes me so angry.

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Speaker 2: Steve Well Shirley says something that hinges on the facts

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Speaker 2: of this whole letter. Shirley said, this line right here,

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Speaker 2: he's still alive, and that is what he inges on

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Speaker 2: this whole letter, he is still alive, referring to her

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Speaker 2: the fifty six year old woman's seventy five year old husband,

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Speaker 2: He is still alive. The question beckons, now how long?

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Speaker 2: Now let's read the letter. Charley posed the question that

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Speaker 2: made the statement he is still alive. The question I

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Speaker 2: propose is how long? So now let's read the letter

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Speaker 2: based on this letter is filled with discrimination. I have

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Speaker 2: been accused of fat shaming, and now I be accused

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Speaker 2: of age discrimination. I'm in the middle. She fifty six,

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Speaker 2: he's seventy five. I'm sixty seven. I'm right in the

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Speaker 2: middle of this mess. I'm damn near both of them.

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Speaker 2: Here I go this Stephenshall, I'm fifty six year old.

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Speaker 2: My husband turned seventy five. In made my husband great,

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Speaker 2: providing great daddy. Here's a key line. I don't get

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Speaker 2: butterflies when I'm with him like I did in the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Quit looking for butterflies. He's seventy five, Start looking for moths.

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Speaker 2: What you need to quit doing is quick looking for butterflies.

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Speaker 2: He know that ain't butterflies no more. This is moss,

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Speaker 2: fat fluffy ass moths.

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Speaker 1: You stupid.

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Speaker 2: Red, big old moss, wool eating ass, moth hungry ass

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Speaker 2: math Butterflies fly like this. Butterflies flutter, they go up

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Speaker 2: on stuff. So let's stop looking for the butterflies. Used

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Speaker 2: to feel when you first met him. He's seventy five.

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Speaker 2: He don't make butterflies, No more them his moths. I

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Speaker 2: would admit he wooed me in the beginning with expensive things,

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Speaker 2: and I was caught up at first. We met, got married.

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Speaker 2: All in the years, See, you was thirsty, then you

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Speaker 2: was thirsty. You saw that lifestyle and went for it.

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Speaker 2: I just snapped back into reality until I met my

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Speaker 2: I want my stepson more than I want my husband.

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Speaker 2: He fifty two year old bachelor and a big flirt,

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Speaker 2: and you're a fifty six year old married woman. That's

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Speaker 2: a big flirt. He come over to the house. We

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Speaker 2: the den and glued to the TV. My stuff signed

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Speaker 2: and I enjoy the same wines, foods, movies, and podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Cause you listen to podcasts don't make you young. I just

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Speaker 2: want to point that out. You try to throw that

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Speaker 2: in like y'all doing some real young stof We like

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Speaker 2: the same movie, food, wine, and podcast. We fall and

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Speaker 2: don't see what's happening. Your husband might not see what's happening,

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Speaker 2: but you do. You've been eyeing him since your wedding day.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, I'll be back. Yeah, we'll have part two

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Speaker 1: the hour. Today's strawberry letter subject I'm falling for him,

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Speaker 1: not his daddy. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening morning show, All right, Come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letter. I'm falling for him, not his daddy.

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Speaker 2: Fifty six year old woman that married this seventy five

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Speaker 2: no more. I'll be rinded her that he's seventy five.

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Speaker 2: Stop looking for butterflies, start looking for moths, moss, big fat, fluffy.

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Speaker 2: I will admit he wooed me with expensive things. I

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Speaker 2: was caught up. We met, got married all within the year,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't snap back into reality until I met

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Speaker 2: my step son at our wedding a year ago. On

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Speaker 2: your wedding day, you're trifling behind snap back to reality

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Speaker 2: by realizing you was marrying this old man because if

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Speaker 2: he could buy you expensive things. Now you say you

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Speaker 2: Fifty two year old bachelor and a big flirt. Come

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Speaker 2: over to the house. We have a good time together

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Speaker 2: while I'm husband sits in the den glued to the TV.

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Speaker 2: My step sign and his son and I enjoy the

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Speaker 2: same movies, wines, foods, podcasts. Y'all that fell asleep together

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Speaker 2: see what's happening. Yeah, but you do though. You see

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Speaker 2: what's happening, and you saw what you wanted to happen

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Speaker 2: on your wedding day when you met your step son.

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Speaker 2: On your wedding day, my stepson says that he hopes

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Speaker 2: he can meet a woman like me that's smart, pretty

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Speaker 2: and sexy after age fifty. Then you reminded him he's

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Speaker 2: only a few years young, and he said, I look

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Speaker 2: better than most of the ladies. Says, hey, I made

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Speaker 2: up an excuse to have lunch with him yesterday. I

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Speaker 2: told him I need to play in his daddy's birthday

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Speaker 2: parties who agreed to meet me. He was so handsome

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Speaker 2: and he smelled so good. See. Now let's go talk

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Speaker 2: about smell, because him and his daddy smell differently. Yeah. See,

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Speaker 2: the young boy smell at cologne and his daddy smell

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Speaker 2: like minute. That's two different smells.

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Speaker 1: She didn't say that.

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Speaker 2: One of them smell like a feel outside, the other

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Speaker 2: smell like inside the hospital. Yeah, you're right there. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: One of them smell like he fifty, so he wear

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Speaker 2: old ass cloone. One of them smell like Hoiston. The

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Speaker 2: other one smell like icy hot. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: One of them in there smelling like uh oh, what's

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Speaker 2: another fahrenheit? That's another old clothe. He and that smelling

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Speaker 2: like ben Gate, you know what you Yeah, with that

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Speaker 2: young dude in that smelling like lotion. Your husband in

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Speaker 2: that smell like sav.

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Speaker 1: Yeah have you heard that word?

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Speaker 2: A young boy rubbing but baby all on his chest.

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Speaker 2: Your husband got vixed vapor rub on head. It's two

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Speaker 2: different smells, one of them all and one of them

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Speaker 2: thick and gummy. Yeah yeah, yeah, your little fitty you old.

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Speaker 2: He taking pills to help his night out viagraus and yalysies.

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Speaker 2: Your husband in there taking nitro glistering. He trying to

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Speaker 2: stay in this world. He taking step to keep the

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Speaker 2: jump start his herd makes him make his heart them

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Speaker 2: two different pills. One of the pills you could do

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Speaker 2: without the other one. He came miss oh lord. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: he was so handsome, he smelled so good. This hug

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Speaker 2: wasn't like the normal step son either. Yeah, that's why

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Speaker 2: his hugs are different because he see he hugging your

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Speaker 2: husband falling on you. See you hug got seventy fie old.

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Speaker 2: It turned from a hug to hold me up right quick.

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Speaker 2: It's two different things from her to hold me up.

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Speaker 2: Hug me and hold me up. It's two different things.

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Speaker 2: And we blushed when the waiter call us mister and

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Speaker 2: missus Kane. It's obvious we look good together. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: hard to look good with your hugs because there's too

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Speaker 2: much stuff in the picture.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: And y'all sitting there there taking picture in the chair,

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Speaker 2: but you can see the handlebars from his hove around

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Speaker 2: think you all look good together? Y'all? Y'all taking the picture,

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Speaker 2: but you can see the walker right next to the chair.

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Speaker 2: You can see that, and that can take away from

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Speaker 2: the picture. You know, you know, you're sitting up there

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Speaker 2: y'all in the chair, but you can see the cane.

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Speaker 2: It ain't no Ron Ashley Kane. This that cane that

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Speaker 2: you get a CVS Brown with the black grip on

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Speaker 2: the end of it. He got one of them crutches

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Speaker 2: in the picture with the armbrace on it.

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Speaker 1: He's just seventy five.

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Speaker 2: That's what's wrong. Though. After lunch he texted me and

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Speaker 2: said we had a great time and he said that

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Speaker 2: I give a great hug. I wanted to tell him

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Speaker 2: I get great everything. So what did you say with

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Speaker 2: bs and tell him I'm falling for him? Or should

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Speaker 2: I wait so he can make the first move? Do

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Speaker 2: you hear that question? Either way? In this question, she

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Speaker 2: know is going down, She's planning on it going down.

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Speaker 2: She just want to know shit she said, or wait

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Speaker 2: on him to say it. But it's going down. The

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Speaker 2: decision has been made. You've chosen the stepson on wedding

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Speaker 2: day versus his old ass daddy.

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Speaker 2: Nurse being around at the pictures too. That's another thing

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Speaker 2: you're

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Speaker 1: Listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show