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Speaker 1: It is a strawberry letter. All right, thank you, nephew.

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Speaker 1: Subject Grandpa is lonely and needs some loving. Dear Steve

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Speaker 1: and Shirley. I'm a forty two year old married woman

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Speaker 1: and my seventy six year old father in law moved

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Speaker 1: in with us after his wife died last year. He

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Speaker 1: was very depressed, so we thought it would help if

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Speaker 1: he came to live with us and be surrounded by family.

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Speaker 1: We have two teens, a boy and a girl, and

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Speaker 1: they have enjoyed having their grandfather in the house. But

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Speaker 1: there's just one issue. Now that my father in law

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Speaker 1: is a widower. He pleases himself almost every night, and

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Speaker 1: he is very loud about it. He's he's come on,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get through this guy. He's in the guest

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Speaker 1: bedroom right next to our master bedroom, and we are

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Speaker 1: not sure exactly what he's doing in there, but we

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Speaker 1: certainly don't want to hear it. Most nights, most nights

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Speaker 1: on the eleven PM or so, we hear the bed squeaking,

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Speaker 1: he's moaning, and occasionally he will curse out loud. I

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Speaker 1: think he's so loud because he's hearing is bad and

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Speaker 1: he has no idea how loud he is. The kids

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Speaker 1: have told us that they hear strange noises at night,

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Speaker 1: but we told them that his grandpa's TV up too loud.

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Speaker 1: I know this poor old man maybe still mourning his

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Speaker 1: wife and he may not be ready to date yet,

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Speaker 1: but he needs to start taking care of his business

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Speaker 1: during the day while the kids are at school and

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Speaker 1: we're at work. I told my husband that we need

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Speaker 1: to address this issue, and I suggested that my husband

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Speaker 1: do it man to man, son to father, but he

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Speaker 1: said he's not going to do it. He does not

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Speaker 1: want to embarrass his dad or make him feel unwelcome.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I can encourage my father in law to get

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Speaker 1: out more and hopes that he can meet a nice

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Speaker 1: single woman. Or should I just let it go and

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Speaker 1: hope that my husband will handle this. I need this

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Speaker 1: to stop. Please help O h temmy. You know people

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Speaker 1: ask us that all the time, as if we make

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Speaker 1: these up. I can't make this stuff up, can you, Steve? All? Right?

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Speaker 1: Here we go? I just you know, I wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: how in the world to broach the subject if this

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Speaker 1: were my father in law in my house doing this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even if it was in my own home. Um,

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Speaker 1: I really wouldn't know. I mean, I think you did

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Speaker 1: the best thing by asking your husband his son to

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Speaker 1: talk to his dad about it. But he says he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Uh you know this. He probably

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Speaker 1: embarrass his dad. But I mean, is it really that loud?

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Speaker 1: You can hear the bed squeaking, you can hear him

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Speaker 1: cursing and stuff. I guess if the rooms are so

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Speaker 1: close and the walls are so thin, um gee, and

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Speaker 1: the kids here too, they hear strange noises. Somebody's got

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Speaker 1: to do something. And if your husband's too ashamed or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is to talk to his own dad. You're

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Speaker 1: the woman of the house. Uh, you know, I encourage

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Speaker 1: you too, you know, encourage him to meet some women,

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Speaker 1: a nice single woman. Um, and uh, you know, start

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Speaker 1: dating and stuff. I know it's it's soon, it's been

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Speaker 1: a year, but maybe he can, you know, go out

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Speaker 1: that grandparents. But um, wow, this is major and I

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Speaker 1: have no idea what to tell you. Because I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I would do in this situation. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't steve you. Well, it ain't major, I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that bone. Let me handle this right here. It's

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Speaker 1: because I see you tippy toeing rod because you don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do. Well, seventy six been wife died

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Speaker 1: and he's real depressed. And guy said, and y'all feel

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Speaker 1: the grandkids love having papaver. It's just a real night

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Speaker 1: and a girl. They just love having their grandfather in

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Speaker 1: the house. Well, the problem is he's a widow though,

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Speaker 1: last year. So you know, here trying to work through

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. Well, then you must know

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Speaker 1: what's going on. You ain't showing what he's doing there,

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Speaker 1: You just ain't showing how he doing it. You know

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Speaker 1: what the hell going on? You grown? Because it's grown folk, ladder.

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Speaker 1: You just said he was in that pleasure in himself

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Speaker 1: and that pop now seventy six, which makes me sit

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Speaker 1: to tell me that the possibilities is still there? Hallelujah

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Speaker 1: for this strawberry het up. I got something to look

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Speaker 1: forward to. I ain't mad at your pop, handle your business.

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Speaker 1: You can't find somebody you be who you need them

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Speaker 1: to be sitting up there, man, man, every night, most nights,

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Speaker 1: most nights round eleven, you hear the bed squeaking. Now

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Speaker 1: that's y'all's fault. Y'all put him in that bag of

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Speaker 1: aass bed. Your new parts coming. The first thing you

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Speaker 1: need to do now is get that box spraying out

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Speaker 1: of there to fix them slats or something, and get

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Speaker 1: that new phone mattress that ain't got all that squeaking.

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Speaker 1: That that's this y'all fault. Then he's moaning and a came.

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Speaker 1: Usually he will crush out loud what you want to? Boy?

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Speaker 1: You have to God be up and I'm brought the step.

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Speaker 1: You better come on with this what girl? You better?

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Speaker 1: He's by himself. Spray man, God, you get on my lastner,

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Speaker 1: my man, Come on, man, we bought the brock the

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Speaker 1: brack girl. You in what you good lord? Good clock

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Speaker 1: rabbit really really really father of Steve's crazy the same thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's fixing the Loneliness. Though Loneliness been a widow year

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Speaker 1: and a half wife died, he moved in with his son,

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Speaker 1: night next to them with his ragged ass bed. And

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Speaker 1: now most nights, well that when the beard is squeaking,

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Speaker 1: most nights round leven o'clock, some start happening in that

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Speaker 1: his they say. She says she don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Then she turned right around say here in that pleasure himself,

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Speaker 1: which I said earlier, gave me a lot of hope

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Speaker 1: because I'm sixty two and to know that this man

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Speaker 1: is in here alone at seventy six and it's still popping.

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy for this letter. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: exactly because they have in trouble way folk seventy six, Well,

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Speaker 1: he in that letting them have it now. The problem

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Speaker 1: is they can head. They can head. He loud with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and he's starting the cuss kah this you better,

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Speaker 1: oh lord, shut the front doubt. Yeah, I got girl, girl,

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Speaker 1: girl girl. Steve Harvey beat me like a run away.

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Speaker 1: He also he's saying, you better doing like cotton like amute,

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Speaker 1: Oh my stent, Oh cold kid, you're kiss it kids.

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Speaker 1: He kiss the kids, and kiss the kids, and kiss

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Speaker 1: and kids. He squeaking, squeak, Oh man, squeaking, squeaking, squeaking,

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Speaker 1: march me. I want to be friend. Really yeah, he said,

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Speaker 1: away with the comedy, y'all stop clowning so much. What minutes.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do a couple of things. We

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Speaker 1: had to put a boom box in in his room

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Speaker 1: so he can cut it on. Put some rap music

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Speaker 1: in there, yeah, you know, with some eat it. Or

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Speaker 1: you can put up some co corkboard in the room.

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Speaker 1: They're just going there. Ham up that brown coltboard, remember

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, you know, block outside sound proof pop room.

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Speaker 1: You could probably do that. I can understand the man.

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Speaker 1: He don't want to go in there and say nothing

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Speaker 1: it ain't got a hole in the mouth for Jessice

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Speaker 1: s Mullet coming out with a new collection. Pick up one.

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Speaker 1: Let me answer something. Yea, sir, I answering all question.

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Speaker 1: What what do granddad to say where he comes to

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Speaker 1: I did, It's got a big appetite right outside, right

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Speaker 1: out there, putting myself to sleep good? Any more questions? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because what the grandpa have was his nice Oh, I

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Speaker 1: got corn huskers lotion. I gotta I keep a little

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Speaker 1: lord lord good. You don't know how good Chris Goal is. Sometimes,

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Speaker 1: you know, I have a little fish grease next to

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Speaker 1: that I have pale wilding gloves. And what that was for?

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Speaker 1: Tell that? Ain't you being? I'm will about what the

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Speaker 1: wild include. But that's what's so nice thing? Any more? Quick?

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Speaker 1: Oh man? I mean are you natural? Do you have

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Speaker 1: to take any enhancement or anything? Oh? I don't I

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Speaker 1: can't a food that my pension don't pay for that?

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Speaker 1: Do peo high here? You know, I don't got to

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Speaker 1: take none of that, no move because you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: lonely shore, I'm by myself. You know, it ain't got

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Speaker 1: It's just me myself and that what TV shows you

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Speaker 1: Oh that that's what they need to I want to

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Speaker 1: they can hear. Well, have you ever thought, um, sir,

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Speaker 1: that you should get a girlfriend or something, maybe go

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Speaker 1: over her house? Yeah? I wish I could find a girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know some you know anybody setting the

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Speaker 1: fire that's fun. Well, you ain't gonna be fine. I

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Speaker 1: just take hit by myself. I'm working it out. Don't

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Speaker 1: the hand the bear wood over here? Then all right, listen,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. Email it's your Instagram.

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