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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject best friends and lovers. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to write this letter, but here goes nothing.

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Speaker 1: I'm in my late forties and I'm married to a

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Speaker 1: wonderful man that can't satisfy all of my needs. He's

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Speaker 1: a great father, and he's a great financial provider. I

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Speaker 1: have the house, car, clothes, jewelry, and everything else. In

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Speaker 1: addition to all of that, I have a great group

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Speaker 1: of friends and my husband never complains when I want

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Speaker 1: vacation with my girls. He doesn't even mind that my

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Speaker 1: best friend is a guy and he's been in my

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Speaker 1: up the slack in the one area that my husband

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Speaker 1: falls short, the bedroom. We've been having sex for over

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Speaker 1: twenty five years. He was my first and the best

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Speaker 1: I've ever had so far. I was so in love

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Speaker 1: with him in my early twenties, but he never chose

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Speaker 1: me as his girlfriend. We've kept our secret affair going

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Speaker 1: for years. He told me that he's going to propose

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Speaker 1: of me, and my knees crumbled. I literally fell right

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Speaker 1: in front of him. I knew other girls he dated,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't care because he'd always come and make

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Speaker 1: love to me whenever I needed him. We kissed and

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Speaker 1: it like we were a couple. Then we'd get dressed

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Speaker 1: and go hang out like we were best friends. It

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Speaker 1: years of terrible sex with my husband. Now he's going

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Speaker 1: to get married and the dynamic will change. I've had

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Speaker 1: fantasies of him begging me to leave my husband for him,

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Speaker 1: but now it is very clear that he's overlooked me again.

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Speaker 1: I want to bake, I want to break free. But

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Speaker 1: how do I Are you saying you want to break

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Speaker 1: free of your marriage or you want to break free

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Speaker 1: of him? You want to break free of him that

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Speaker 1: hold he has on you. All right, well, this is

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Speaker 1: course you know that's you gotta get yourself together. You

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Speaker 1: no remorse in your letter. I hear nothing about you

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Speaker 1: love or care for your husband. I mean, you said

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Speaker 1: earlier that he was wonderful man. All I hear is

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Speaker 1: you pining over your soon to be ex boyfriend slash

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Speaker 1: side piece. Well he's out now, he's out. The problem

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Speaker 1: for you is that you guys have been going at

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Speaker 1: it for twenty five years, and it's not so easy

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Speaker 1: for you to just pick up and leave. You have emotions,

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Speaker 1: you have strong feelings invested in. This doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: he does. Though you said that he dropped you again

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Speaker 1: in the letter. It sounds like it was just some

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Speaker 1: easy sex for him. With you. It was there, it

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Speaker 1: was available, so he did it. I mean, now he's

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Speaker 1: asking you please let him do that, because it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you're a little hesitant here to let him, you know,

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Speaker 1: any interference from you. It's over and you need to

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Speaker 1: concentrate on your own house. You have a whole husband

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Speaker 1: that you've been cheating on for the longest. Uh, try

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Speaker 1: to salvage what you what you can, if you can,

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't know about the affair, and if that's

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Speaker 1: not what you want, leave and let your husband be free.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all. That's all I've got for you.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it, Steve, Wow, this letter is gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. This is gonna be fun. Um, how much

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Speaker 1: whenever a person writes that I'm ashamed to write this

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Speaker 1: get this, what married to a wonderful man? How many

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Speaker 1: women would love to say that that can't satisfy all

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Speaker 1: great financial provanda provider. I have the house, car closed,

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Speaker 1: complains that I want to have a girl's night out,

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Speaker 1: mind that my best friend is a guy and he's

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Speaker 1: been in my life since I was fifteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Let me stop right now. Your husband ain't that stupid.

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Speaker 1: Please understand, he don't mind you going on vacation. He

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Speaker 1: don't mind that's your best friend. Don't think that men

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Speaker 1: because ain't no need to exposing you and run the

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Speaker 1: is as naive and as dumb as you take. Satisfying

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Speaker 1: you might not have to be a priority, especially if

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Speaker 1: you're doing something somewhere else. But then, if he is,

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Speaker 1: you bought this all upon yourself. I know I bought

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Speaker 1: it on myself. I owe no blame to no one else.

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Speaker 1: And now I realize I can't get over you. Frank You,

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Speaker 1: Beverly and Maids, my favorite maid song. When I come back,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna really have to tell you something. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry Letters, subject best friends and lovers. We'll get

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Speaker 1: today's strawberry letter. The subject best friends and lovers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this letter right here. This woman in her late forties

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Speaker 1: has a wonderful husband, does everything a man is supposed

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Speaker 1: to do, provides great father, the great husband. Provided she's

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Speaker 1: got claws, closed jewelry. She got everything she wanted. She

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Speaker 1: even got a great group of friends, and she goes down.

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Speaker 1: Her husband don't mind she gonna vacation with her girlfriends,

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Speaker 1: and he really don't mind that her best friend is

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Speaker 1: a guy and she's been sleeping with this guy since

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Speaker 1: they were fifteen. Twenty five years they've been sleeping together.

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Speaker 1: That's in the letter. That's a fact. Now your husband

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Speaker 1: ain't giving it to you in the bedroom. Like he's

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Speaker 1: this boy that's your best friend. He's your first and

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Speaker 1: as you said, you've been in love with him in

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Speaker 1: your early twenties. But he never chose me as his girlfriend. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is very important. Ever, he never chose me as

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Speaker 1: his Girlfred. We've kept our secret of fair going for years.

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Speaker 1: He told me that he's going to propose to a

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Speaker 1: It was like he knocked the wind out of me,

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Speaker 1: of him. Look, I knew other girls he dated, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't care because it has always come and make

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Speaker 1: love to me whenever I needed him. We kissed and

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Speaker 1: carressed each other. He always took a time with it,

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Speaker 1: like we wore a couple. Then we get dressing, go

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Speaker 1: hang out like we were best friends. It was sneaky

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Speaker 1: and fun. Okay, listen, remember that line. It was sneaky

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Speaker 1: of terrible sect with my husband. Now he's going to

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Speaker 1: But now it's very clear that he's overlooked me again.

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Speaker 1: I want to break But how do I surely ask

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Speaker 1: the best question? Surely said? Are you trying to break

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Speaker 1: fee of him or your husband? Because your fantasy is

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Speaker 1: for one day him to come and beg you to

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Speaker 1: leave your husband, which you would do. But you've been

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Speaker 1: sleeping with this man behind your husband's back for all

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Speaker 1: these times, and your knees buckled and you failed. When

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Speaker 1: he told you he was gonna marry a special girl,

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Speaker 1: well that was shocking to you. He's never chosen you

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Speaker 1: even as his girlfriend before. You ain't even been girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Why the hell are you hanging home for wife? I'm confused.

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Speaker 1: Then you said he's overlooked me again again. That's been

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Speaker 1: it from always. I want to break free? But how well?

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Speaker 1: Here we go? I have written seven point points that

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Speaker 1: help you break free. Because you're free, You're not in

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Speaker 1: you caught up on your own and you bought this

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Speaker 1: on yourself. So how do you break free? Let's come

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Speaker 1: to seven points of contention, these things you need to

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Speaker 1: get in your head. Number one you easy, you easy,

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Speaker 1: You're right down you easy, You're right there, easy, available

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Speaker 1: you just that you tag you and I feel like

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Speaker 1: doing something? Won't come? Do you you ready for the

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Speaker 1: next one? You ain't the one? Oh, you need to

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Speaker 1: get an I got seven things lady that you need

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Speaker 1: to get through your head. You ain't the one. You

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Speaker 1: ain't ever build the one. You've always been the other one?

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Speaker 1: You have never been the one. What is your shock

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Speaker 1: been cheating on your man for twenty five years. Horrible,

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Speaker 1: this fun, sneaky fun you've been having. You're not wifey material.

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Speaker 1: You've given us a letter full of proof. But you

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Speaker 1: How you ready for number four? Bring it? Let go?

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Speaker 1: even when you get mad, Mary, just do he can

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Speaker 1: have you even when you getting married? So why he

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Speaker 1: got to marry you? Are you on it? You're ready

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Speaker 1: for number five? I'm ready, let's go, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Huh yes, yes ready? You let me use you? Why

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Speaker 1: would I choose you? One more time? On that one boy?

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Speaker 1: I said you let me use you? Why would I

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Speaker 1: choose you? That's number five? You need to get these

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Speaker 1: in your head. You you won't number six? Yes, How

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Speaker 1: you gonna be first when clearly you love second? You've

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