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Speaker 1: All right, guys, time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And

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

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Speaker 1: please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com.

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Speaker 1: Could be your letter. We're reading letty air. That's for you, Jay,

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Speaker 1: You never know it could be yours? Right, you never know?

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Speaker 1: Buckle lupohold on tight. We got it for you here.

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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letter subject. I've been faking it

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Speaker 1: and got caught. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty seven

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Speaker 1: year old single man and I moved to Atlantic City recently,

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Speaker 1: and I share a home with my elderly uncle. He

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Speaker 1: has always been like a father to me, so what's

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Speaker 1: his is mine and vice versa. He has always had

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Speaker 1: the flashy cars and nice suits, and he still wears

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Speaker 1: a huge diamond pinky ring. His wife died a year ago,

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Speaker 1: so he's adjusting to the single life. Since he's a

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Speaker 1: young seventy two years old. It's great living with him,

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Speaker 1: and although I am a grown man, I still learn

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Speaker 1: a lot from him. I started taking care of his

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Speaker 1: cars for him, so I'm in a different car every day.

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Speaker 1: He has two and his wife drove an escalade. Being

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Speaker 1: new in town, I was focused on meeting a nice

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Speaker 1: lady to settle down with. I'm recently divorced and I

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Speaker 1: hate being single. I was out running Aaron's last month

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Speaker 1: and I parked next to a fine young lady and

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Speaker 1: she watched me as I got out of the car,

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Speaker 1: so I doubled back to say hello to her. She

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Speaker 1: complimented me on the escalade and said it's her dream car.

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Speaker 1: I told her I'd pick her up later for dinner

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Speaker 1: in it. It was just that easy. I had a

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Speaker 1: date with a fine thirty four year old woman. I

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Speaker 1: continued to see her, and I was always in a

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Speaker 1: different car. She was hooked, and although I knew she

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Speaker 1: was attracted to the nicer things, I was trying to

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Speaker 1: make her like me like me just as much. One

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Speaker 1: day I was out with my uncle and she called

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Speaker 1: and asked me to bring her a beg of potatoes.

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Speaker 1: I would do anything this woman wanted at this point,

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Speaker 1: At that point, so I could keep her. My uncle

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Speaker 1: and I swung by her place, and she came out

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Speaker 1: to the bins and leaned in, and my uncle told

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Speaker 1: her that he was very happy that I'm living with him.

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Speaker 1: While I got on my feet and found a job.

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Speaker 1: The disappointment showed in her face and she had stopped

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Speaker 1: taking my calls. Did I dodge a bullet? Or should

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Speaker 1: I keep pursuing her? Well, I gotta say this. You're

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Speaker 1: mad at your uncle right about now, aren't you? For

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Speaker 1: snitching on you? You should, That's exactly what he did.

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Speaker 1: You had a really good thing. I was wondering if

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Speaker 1: you heard that you had a really good thing going

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Speaker 1: with this young lady and then unc pulled the curtain

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Speaker 1: all the way back. I think he sees what you're

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Speaker 1: doing and he's tired of it and have just come

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Speaker 1: to a head. This was his way of telling you

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Speaker 1: to be a man, get your stuff together. You you

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Speaker 1: never mentioned in the letter. Are you even trying to

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Speaker 1: get a job, because that's where your focus should be

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Speaker 1: right now. You can't live off your uncle forever. And yes,

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Speaker 1: what you saw in her face was shock because she

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Speaker 1: realized that you weren't the man she thought you were.

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Speaker 1: You were lying in stunting and your uncle just busted

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Speaker 1: you out. So don't try to make her out to

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Speaker 1: be a gold digger or anything. Talking about did you

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Speaker 1: dodge a bullet? U? No, that's not the case. She's

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Speaker 1: not the bad guy. You did this to yourself. Women

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Speaker 1: don't like liars, that's all. You should have been real

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Speaker 1: with her. Steve. Yeah, well, this is gonna be an

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Speaker 1: interesting letter because I have different take here. This idiot

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Speaker 1: mess right here, So let me take you down into

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Speaker 1: that other places of my man and what I read

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Speaker 1: when I read the letter. I've been faking it and

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Speaker 1: I got caught then, Stephen Sherley. Now I'm as I

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Speaker 1: read the letter, I'm gonna give you the thoughts I

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Speaker 1: was having as I was reading the letter. And I

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Speaker 1: had these thoughts more and more as I went on,

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Speaker 1: because I'm very confused forty. First of all, I'm a

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Speaker 1: forty seven year old single man, and I moved to

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Speaker 1: Atlantic City. Were very rarely get letters from forty seven

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Speaker 1: year old men. Ask for starters right there. I share

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Speaker 1: a home with my elderly uncle. He's always been like

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Speaker 1: a father to me. And here's way it gets tricky

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Speaker 1: right off the bat. So was here's his mind and

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Speaker 1: vice versa. He has always had the flashy cars at

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Speaker 1: nice suits, and he is the first thing. He still

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Speaker 1: wears a huge diamond pinkyree. I noticed right away that

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Speaker 1: He's attracted to things also, and now he impressed with

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Speaker 1: his uncle because he wears a huge pinky damning ring.

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Speaker 1: A lot of little things matter to this dude right

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Speaker 1: in this letter. His wife died a year ago, so

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Speaker 1: he's adjusted to the single life since he's a young

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Speaker 1: seventy two years old. Here is another statement, it's great

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Speaker 1: living with him. And although I'm a grown man who

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Speaker 1: all right there to her, how hard to say it's

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Speaker 1: great living with somebody in your asses forty seven. I

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Speaker 1: still learn a lot from him. Now that's a true statement.

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Speaker 1: Here's another statement that sticks out. I started taking care

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Speaker 1: of his cars for him, so I'm in a different

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Speaker 1: car every day. He has two. Excuse me, he has two,

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Speaker 1: and his wife drove an Escalade now be in new

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Speaker 1: in Town. I was focused on meeting a nice lady

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Speaker 1: to settle down with. Okay, I've recently divorced and I

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Speaker 1: hate being single. I was out running as last month

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Speaker 1: and I parted next to a fine young lady and

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Speaker 1: she watched me as I got out to car, so

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Speaker 1: I doubled back to say hello. She complimented me on

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Speaker 1: the Escalade and said it's her dream car. Were all

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Speaker 1: stay though, excuse me while I have a moment. I'm

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Speaker 1: not flexing or acting. Budgie law of attraction is at work.

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Speaker 1: I will shall go. Hold on, Steve. We'll have part

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Speaker 1: two of your response coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour. Today's Struwberry letter, subject I've been faking

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Speaker 1: it and got caught. We'll get back into it right

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

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Struwberry letter. The subject I've been faking

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Speaker 1: it and got caught. And the name of this letter

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Speaker 1: I've discovered should be small people like small things, because

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Speaker 1: this is what I'm seeing in this letter a lot

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Speaker 1: of Here's a forty seven year old single man that

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Speaker 1: the move to Atlantic City and thinks it's great to

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Speaker 1: move in with his uncle. Small people like small things,

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Speaker 1: and so he's been like a father to me, and

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Speaker 1: so we've always considered was he is his his? I mean,

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Speaker 1: was he is his mind? And was mine is his?

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Speaker 1: He's always had the flashy cars that you're gonna find

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Speaker 1: out that the escalade would want him. He's always had

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Speaker 1: the flashy cars and nice suits. And here's a big one.

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Speaker 1: He still wears a huge diamond, pinky ring. Small people

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Speaker 1: like small things. His wife died a year ago. He's

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Speaker 1: just in to the single life. He's young, seventy two

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Speaker 1: years old, in his great living with him, even though

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Speaker 1: I'm a grown man. Small people like small things. Boy,

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Speaker 1: don't you see your life in trouble? If you fought

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Speaker 1: to sething, you gotta move in with your uncle. Your

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Speaker 1: uncle ain't sick. It's something wrong with you, dog, but

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Speaker 1: you're so happy to move in. I still learned a

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Speaker 1: lot from him, so I started taking care of his

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Speaker 1: cars for him. So I'm in a different car every day.

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Speaker 1: He had two and his wife drove Escalade, and being

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Speaker 1: new in time, I was trying to focus on this woman.

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Speaker 1: So he goes to this store and he gets out

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Speaker 1: the car and he puts next to this really fine

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Speaker 1: woman and he gets down out the truck. He notices

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Speaker 1: her looking at him. He doubles back and speak to

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Speaker 1: the girl, and she told him she complimented me on

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Speaker 1: the Escalade and said it's her dream car. Listen, y'all,

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Speaker 1: I think Escalade trucks is nice myself, I really do.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind only one. I was in one, rented one,

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Speaker 1: you know, got picked up in one another. Then I

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Speaker 1: like them. I think the cold trucks, but that ain't

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Speaker 1: my dream car. Yeah, I won't one, but you know

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Speaker 1: it's okay. You can pick up your dreams, though you

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Speaker 1: can want something else. But I like escalators. I do

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Speaker 1: want to say that cat like insculating nice truck. I

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Speaker 1: told her I'd pick up later for dinner in it,

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Speaker 1: And it was just that easy. Small people like small things.

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Speaker 1: I had a date with a fine throw of the

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Speaker 1: old woman, and I continued to see her, and I

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Speaker 1: was always in a different car. Y'all, ain't got but

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Speaker 1: two dog. You just said that you got two cars?

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Speaker 1: You can't done. Every time she saw him, I was

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Speaker 1: in a different car. She was hooked. And although I

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Speaker 1: knew she was attracted to the nicer thing, listen to me,

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Speaker 1: Small people like small things, dont I was trying to

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Speaker 1: make me make her like me as much? Here we go.

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Speaker 1: One day I was out with my uncle and she

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Speaker 1: called and asked me to bring her bag of potatoes.

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Speaker 1: What you was out? She called and asked you to

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Speaker 1: bring up a bag of potatoes? Fellas? How many times

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Speaker 1: all the women you dating? Just backtrack? Fellas? How many

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Speaker 1: times has a woman called you and asked you to

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Speaker 1: bring her a bag of potatoes. No never, never, Well

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Speaker 1: did y'all stay man, bring them something to eat up?

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Speaker 1: But not doing or potatoes? Now, don't I read that?

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Speaker 1: I went, we didn't stopped this letter right here. I

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Speaker 1: would do anything this woman wanted at this point. Yep,

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Speaker 1: even swing by and get a bag of potatoes so

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Speaker 1: I could keep it. My uncle and I swung about

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Speaker 1: her place. Now heid took an uncle with him, which

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Speaker 1: he's got to the potatoes. So they swaying by with

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Speaker 1: the potatoes. Potatoes in the back seat. Now you bought

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Speaker 1: your homie with you. That's seventy two years old. You

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Speaker 1: into your homie car and you got these potatoes in

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Speaker 1: the bat and you probably had to buy them money

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Speaker 1: from your uncle to body. Damn potatoes. She comes out

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Speaker 1: to the car. Now hear the other thing who pull

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Speaker 1: up at somebody house blow the horn and they come

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Speaker 1: out to get a sack of potatoes. This letter is

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Speaker 1: a small people like small things too. I've yah blah,

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Speaker 1: I got the potatoes. I'm coming out. I'm on my way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got him. You got him. Bring your brother? What

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Speaker 1: is trod bag? So she came out to the bins

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Speaker 1: and leaning there. Now they got the bins. Now. My

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Speaker 1: uncle told her he was very happy that I'm living

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Speaker 1: with him while I got on my feet and found

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Speaker 1: a job. The disappointment showed on her face. She stopped

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Speaker 1: taking my call. Did I dodge your bullet? Or should

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Speaker 1: I keep pursuing her? Though you quick calling her, she

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Speaker 1: didn't found out that ain't your bins, that ain't your escalade.

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Speaker 1: She had found out you ain't working, and you probably

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Speaker 1: didn't bring the right bag of potatoes. Bat damn out

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Speaker 1: of whole potato with all these spuds on? Who brands

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Speaker 1: a woman spuds on? These damn bacon potatoes? All right, Steve,

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