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Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now. It could be yours.

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Speaker 1: You never know, you never know. Buckle up and hold

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Speaker 1: a Strawberry Letter subject my mother and my ex are besties.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been divorced for almost three years,

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Speaker 1: and I moved away after the divorce to start anew.

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Speaker 1: My husband was an avid cheater, and my mother finally

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Speaker 1: told me after he'd been having an affair with a

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Speaker 1: woman for over six months. My mother is employed by

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Speaker 1: my ex husband as his accountant. He has two businesses

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Speaker 1: that do very well in a small town therein. My

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Speaker 1: mother was a retired accountant when he and I met

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Speaker 1: and he fell in love with her and he hired her.

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Speaker 1: When I say they fell in love, I mean it.

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Speaker 1: Whenever he and I would have a disagreement, she always

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Speaker 1: tell me to consider his point of view. When he cheated.

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Speaker 1: I think she knew it all along and only told

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Speaker 1: me because my ten year old daughter saw him with

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Speaker 1: this woman. Excuse me. My daughter kept referencing daddy's friend

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Speaker 1: at work, so I asked my mother and she spilled

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Speaker 1: the teeth. Our relationship hasn't been the same since then,

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Speaker 1: and she said it's because I divorced my husband. Her

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Speaker 1: belief is that I should have kept my family together

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Speaker 1: no matter what. The things my husband did for his

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the cheating that got to me. It was

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Speaker 1: the time he spent with her and the trip he

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Speaker 1: for him, and she said that whatever we had going

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Speaker 1: on should not affect her money. Our own daughter doesn't

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Speaker 1: talk to my ex right now because she figured out

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Speaker 1: who daddy's friend was. My mother called recently and said

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Speaker 1: she's trying to get the family together for Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: she wants me there. She said, my ex will be

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Speaker 1: there will be doing the turkey, and she would cook

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Speaker 1: everything else. How can my own mother be so ignorant

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Speaker 1: and invite him to dinner? Should I show up and

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Speaker 1: curse them both out? Well, you know that sounds good

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Speaker 1: on paper, it really does. But but this is bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this situation is bad, and yes, your mom

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Speaker 1: is really wrong. I don't advise you to curse your

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Speaker 1: mom out. I mean, after all, she's all the way wrong.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you one, but she is your mom.

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Speaker 1: She's not acting like a mom, though. I will say that,

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Speaker 1: because her loyalty should be to you at all times,

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Speaker 1: and not your ex. He's cheating, he's your ex husband.

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Speaker 1: She knew about it, didn't tell you. She was keeping

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Speaker 1: these secrets all because of money. Is that why she

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Speaker 1: was doing it? I think this had to hurt you,

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Speaker 1: and this is some kind of betrayal on your mom's part.

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Speaker 1: The best thing you could do is decline her crazy, thoughtless,

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Speaker 1: inconsiderate dinner invitation. Just don't go. Please make your own

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Speaker 1: plan for you and your baby girl, your daughter, maybe

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Speaker 1: some friends or whatever. But the main thing is to

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Speaker 1: and just let that go. Your mother is just anyway

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Speaker 1: after the holidays, I say, continue to distance yourself. This

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Speaker 1: is a toxic situation. Stay away from it and let

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Speaker 1: Don't let her make you feel guilty for divorcing him.

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Speaker 1: That was a while ago, and you should. You definitely

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Speaker 1: is just so wrong on so many levels, Steve, My

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Speaker 1: There's a lot in that statement, ma'am, And I don't

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Speaker 1: Maybe your mother tried to stay out of your business.

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Speaker 1: Didn't have solid proof like the daughter didn't. She just

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Speaker 1: your mother's just trying to stay out of it. But

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Speaker 1: I give you the real school. All right. We'll have

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters subject my mother

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's strawberry letter. The sub mother and my

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Speaker 1: from her husband, who was a big cheater on her.

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Speaker 1: When she met her husband, they introduced him to her mother.

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Speaker 1: Her mother fell in love with him, and the girl says,

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Speaker 1: I think there's something behind that, but I don't have

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Speaker 1: At work, you inquired to your mother about who daddy's

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Speaker 1: then you y'all's relationship ain't been the same sense because

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Speaker 1: matter what. Now here's you say. Here's what you say

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Speaker 1: the problem is, you say. The problem is the things

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Speaker 1: in the trip he took home. That's the cheating. See, sisters,

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Speaker 1: don't yeah, don't talk about he did the same thing

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Speaker 1: for me. That's that's what cheating. Is you seeing somebody?

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Speaker 1: Why are you seeing somebody else? And what do adults

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Speaker 1: How do they spend time together? They go somewhere. So

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Speaker 1: about it's the same thing that got you. That's what

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Speaker 1: do because he cheated, that's all. Now it gets a

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Speaker 1: interesting state, man, But he gets even more interesting though.

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Speaker 1: Our own daughter doesn't talk to my X right nine now.

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Speaker 1: It's our daughter, so I don't know wh your had

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Speaker 1: Your mother is trying to repair the relationship, but she's stupid,

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Speaker 1: He probably wants the best thing he ever had back.

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Speaker 1: He don't went to the mother to get you back.

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Speaker 1: So now the mother says she's trying to get the

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Speaker 1: your mama ignorant? It's okay, some people have mama's that's ignorant.

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Speaker 1: Of course? Not? Why Why I add energy to that?

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Speaker 1: She did give you life. Now do it sound like

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Speaker 1: which I think the case is. Here is the spoiler alert.

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Speaker 1: You said your husband fell in love with your mother,

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Speaker 1: to know where you staying with them? Man, If you

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Speaker 1: So he's where he loves the family and he still

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Speaker 1: to be over at the mom now but Thanksgiving. Yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: you can take that one or two ways. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you think your mama is seeing this man, but

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Speaker 1: I do think your mother is attracted to his power.

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Speaker 1: The power is money shooting. Well, okay, he hadn't provided

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Speaker 1: her with a job. She's told you should have stayed

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Speaker 1: old school? All right, you want to quit, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to find out who really stuffed in there. Sport's talk

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