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Speaker 1: Buckle up, hold on tight. We got it for you here.

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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letter, subject all in the family.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I am keeping a secret from my

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Speaker 1: sweetie and I need your advice. When I was eighteen

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Speaker 1: years old and a senior in high school, I was

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Speaker 1: in love with a beautiful girl who was eighteen and

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Speaker 1: went to a neighboring school. We were each other's first everything.

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Speaker 1: Our puppy love ended when we went away to college.

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Speaker 1: I got a good job and got married right after college,

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Speaker 1: and by the time I was thirty seven, I was

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Speaker 1: divorced and I got a job transfer back to the

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Speaker 1: city I grew up in. Shortly after I moved back,

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Speaker 1: I ran into my high school sweetheart. We had both

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Speaker 1: matured in good ways. She was single and still looked

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Speaker 1: as good as she did twenty years ago. We started

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Speaker 1: dating and now we are inseparable. It's been two years

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Speaker 1: and I want to marry this woman. We spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time around each other's family, and everyone thought

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Speaker 1: we were perfect for each other until my great aunt

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Speaker 1: Doreen came to visit and started snooping around. Aunt Doreen said,

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Speaker 1: my girlfriend looked familiar as she went and dug up

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Speaker 1: an old, dusty picture of our family tree. Aunt Doreen

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Speaker 1: told my parents and I that the love of my

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Speaker 1: life is the great granddaughter of one of my grandfather's

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Speaker 1: first cousins. I was like, say what. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to believe it, but the proof was there. I promised

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Speaker 1: my family that I would break the news to my girl,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know how to tell her that we

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Speaker 1: are such distant cousins that it seems pointless to break

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Speaker 1: up over it. But I must admit that I am

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Speaker 1: worried about the gene pool being too close and us

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Speaker 1: having a child with problems. If you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: how do I break the news to her? Should we

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Speaker 1: risk it all and stay together? Wow? Oh boy? I mean,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, this is something I don't I mean, the

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Speaker 1: great granddaughter of one of your grandfather's first cousins. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if you guys are still really related.

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Speaker 1: I mean the bloodline. I don't know. I mean this

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Speaker 1: is I don't even know if you guys are still related. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess somewhere, way, way, way, way way

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Speaker 1: way down the line, you know, there may be a

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Speaker 1: drop of blood or something you know in your veins

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Speaker 1: or something. But I would tell her, I would just

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Speaker 1: be straight up and tell her. But I would, you know,

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Speaker 1: take one of those ancestry tests or something and find

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Speaker 1: out for sure if you guys are really related or

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Speaker 1: is Aunt Dereene just being messy and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: because her life is miserable or something. This this is

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Speaker 1: a tough one because I don't know. I just don't know,

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Speaker 1: the great granddaughter of my grandfather's first cousins. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you have to sit her down and you have to

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Speaker 1: tell her. And then from there, you guys got to

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Speaker 1: work on this together. And I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: means stay together. I just don't know. Should you risk

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Speaker 1: it all and stay together? No, not without finding out

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Speaker 1: more information. And that's all I have, Steve. It ain't

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Speaker 1: really nothing to having this letter. It's all in the family.

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Speaker 1: Let's star with fat ass. He didn't say you know already.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, old big bitter ass. Ain't

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Speaker 1: don't red it came in here, ain't got nobody, ain't happy,

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Speaker 1: don't want nobody else to have No damn body. That's

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Speaker 1: all this is. That's set up in here. You don't.

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Speaker 1: He was dating this girl in high school. Everything everything,

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Speaker 1: puppy love y'all went away to college, it ended, got

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Speaker 1: a good job, got married right after college. By the

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Speaker 1: time you was thirty seven, that's nineteen years later, you

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Speaker 1: was divorced, got a job, transferred back to the city

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Speaker 1: you grew up in. You moved back, you ran into it.

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Speaker 1: You had both matured and good ways. She was single

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Speaker 1: and still looked like she did twenty years ago. Laud him,

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Speaker 1: Mercy Jack Pott. We started dating and now we're inseparable.

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Speaker 1: It's been two years, and I want to marry this woman.

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Speaker 1: We spent all kinds of time around each other family.

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Speaker 1: Everybody thought we were perfect for each other until my

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Speaker 1: great aunt Doreene bought hub ass into town and it

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Speaker 1: started snoop, now, Steve nothing, you don't see that in there? Now,

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Speaker 1: ain't Dorene ain't got nothing else to do, And said,

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Speaker 1: an old, dusty picture of our family tree. Now hold on.

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Speaker 1: You spend a lot of time around each other's family,

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Speaker 1: and everybody thought we was perfect for each other. You've

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Speaker 1: been around her family, she's been around your family. Ain't

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Speaker 1: nobody said nothing to old Doreene came in to say that.

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Speaker 1: It says it right there if you read carefully. Now,

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Speaker 1: everybody he tried to say it until my great aunt

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Speaker 1: you ain't nobody your great aunt, that's what that's short.

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Speaker 1: To my grid, Ain't Dorene came to visit and started

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Speaker 1: snooping around. Ain't Doreene saying, my girlfriend looked familiar. Dug

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Speaker 1: up old dusty picture of my family tree. Ain't Derene

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Speaker 1: told my parents and I that the love of my life. Now,

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Speaker 1: listen to me, y'all. It's the great granddaughter of one

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Speaker 1: of my grandfathers first cousins. Not a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: I can't even track that, na, what is that? Let

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Speaker 1: me let me show it again. The love of your

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Speaker 1: life is the great granddaughter. Now, when you're the great granddaughter,

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Speaker 1: that means that one of her grandfathers is the great

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Speaker 1: granddaughter of one of her grandfather's first cousins. What I know,

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Speaker 1: it's too much, boy, that's so far in the line.

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Speaker 1: And you know how you get to be cousins. You

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Speaker 1: marry somebody else. What you got to marry somebody else?

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Speaker 1: See to have a cousin a cousin, don't have to

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Speaker 1: be You can marry a cousin and be called a cousin.

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Speaker 1: You follow what I'm saying into it? Yeah, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can be a cousin because you're married in right, or

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Speaker 1: like a niece and nephew that could be could be

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Speaker 1: married on her uncle. Come on, now, you know how family? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I was like, save what I ain't want to believe it,

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Speaker 1: but the proof was right there. Subject all in the family.

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Speaker 1: This dude right up in his old high school sweetheart.

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Speaker 1: After nineteen years of being a way, got a divorce,

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Speaker 1: got transferred back to the city. He grew up and

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Speaker 1: ran up into the high school sweetheart. She still singer,

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Speaker 1: looking good as she did twenty years ago. They started dating,

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Speaker 1: not in separs been two years. Man, I want to

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Speaker 1: marry this woman. We spend all time together with each

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Speaker 1: other's family. Everybody thought we'd perfect each other and then

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Speaker 1: ain't Doreene can't attend? Would you stop? I'm ten you

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Speaker 1: She big old out of that church, had on you know,

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Speaker 1: still cared Bible. That's her stead of being him. Man,

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Speaker 1: ain't dereen saying my girlfriend looked familiar. She wouldn't dig

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Speaker 1: up an old, dusty picture of our family tree, ain't

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Speaker 1: dereen told my parents? And now that the love of

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Speaker 1: my life is the great granddaughter of one of my

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Speaker 1: grandfathers first cousins. Now we can't even track this. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say it to you.

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Speaker 1: That's so damn crazy. And then the dude say, I

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Speaker 1: would like say what. I ain't want to believe it?

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Speaker 1: But the proof is right there. My question is right, well,

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Speaker 1: what this old ass picture? This is all that picture?

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Speaker 1: She ain't in it. I promised my family that I

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Speaker 1: would break the news to my girl, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to tell her that we are such distant

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Speaker 1: cousins that it seems pointless to break up over it.

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Speaker 1: But I must admit that I'm worried about the Jane

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Speaker 1: pool too close and us having a child with problems,

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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. How do I break

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Speaker 1: the news to her? Should I risk it all and

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Speaker 1: stay together? Well, first of all, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: no reason to break up. I think you should go

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Speaker 1: in there and set your girl down, do some research,

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Speaker 1: go over the facts. You're gonna find out that y'all

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Speaker 1: are so far away that actually it's legal for y'all

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Speaker 1: to marry because y'all so far away, man that it

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Speaker 1: thought y'all ain't really related and you could be somebody's

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Speaker 1: cousin just by marriage. Yeah. See, but your big old

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Speaker 1: aren't up in here. She don't want to bring now

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Speaker 1: that she just wants to destroy. Now I understand you,

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Speaker 1: you admitted, But dog, you've gotta tell your girl. You

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Speaker 1: gotta tell her you're right and just sit down and

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Speaker 1: say this is what came up. You gotta tell her now,

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Speaker 1: you know. Look, if you know and it's like this,

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Speaker 1: if you tell everybody that the news came from big as,

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Speaker 1: ain't Doreen. Ain't nobody gonna believe you? No damn what

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Speaker 1: you do? How much mess ain't Duren? You're started in

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Speaker 1: the family. He got to deal with her, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Lies is woman in tone? She been,

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Speaker 1: she by herself, she's single. That's why she had time

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Speaker 1: to dig up that old dust dass photo because she

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Speaker 1: ain't number photos left in a light everybody else to

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Speaker 1: left on. But you know what to steve? How many

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Speaker 1: times have a lot of times people who aren't related

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Speaker 1: at all, they get married or they're in a relationship

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Speaker 1: and they start to look like each other. So it

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Speaker 1: could just be a coincidence. You know that they look alike. Surely,

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Speaker 1: what what haven't you ever heard somebody? Have never heard

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Speaker 1: anybody say that. You guys have been going together so

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Speaker 1: longer married, so long as you start, Yeah, you starting

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Speaker 1: to look alike. I've been with Margie long ass town.

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Speaker 1: We don't knew them, nothing alike. No, you don't know.

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Speaker 1: You don't look like Praise the Lord. No. In a moment,

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Speaker 1: she started looking like me this go out, listen to me.

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Speaker 1: The votes number three. Right after that, damn, she started

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Speaker 1: looking like I'm walking clean up this moment. But just

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Speaker 1: to let you know that is a thing though some people,

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Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, well I tell you what. It better

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Speaker 1: not be a thing. Up him day, Marger started, Look,

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