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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter subject he ruined his chances for intimacy.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I need your input please. I live

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Speaker 1: in the UK, right outside of London, and I love

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Speaker 1: two years. We have a great friendship. So a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago I invited him over for the weekend. It

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Speaker 1: started out as a great meetup, and I was glad

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Speaker 1: we could share some physical intimacy, which is something we'd

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Speaker 1: never done. So this is how the evening went. I

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Speaker 1: The clothes he was wearing had a musky smell, and

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Speaker 1: don't want to freshen up, but he didn't. We got

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Speaker 1: We kissed and it was a good kiss, but I

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Speaker 1: still could smell his musky smell on his shirt and

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Speaker 1: I got out of bed early so he wouldn't try again.

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Speaker 1: He woke up and came into the kitchen and tried

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Speaker 1: He left that afternoon because he could sense that I

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Speaker 1: was not pleased with him. He keeps on asking me

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Speaker 1: instrument works, but he's ruined any chance at intimacy. Am

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Speaker 1: first we'll go here. Okay, thank you for loving our

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Speaker 1: show in the UK, just outside of London. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: it so very much. We really do. Tell all your

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Speaker 1: friends about it. Girl. Okay, let's get to it. Bad

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Speaker 1: hygiene meaning stinky breath, funky body odor like under arms,

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Speaker 1: uncleanliness anything anything you know, just overall uncleanliness and nastiness.

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Speaker 1: It is an absolute deal breaker, absolute deal breaker from me,

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Speaker 1: point bank blank, period. So to the question, are you

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Speaker 1: good idea because he doesn't bathe, he doesn't brush his teeth. No,

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Speaker 1: move on, no, no, Steve, you well you know you

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Speaker 1: and all this hit down. You know nothing. Nothing about

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Speaker 1: this letter makes me sick. Oh I don't give it

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Speaker 1: there so oh about them? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: letter is about a man at stake exactly. I could

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Speaker 1: is she does see you know this gentleman friend of

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Speaker 1: In two years, you ain't smelled his ass. Two years

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about funky people. See when

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Speaker 1: well that who wait? See if six, since she's from London,

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Speaker 1: he said. I dare say, why waste the water? That's

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Speaker 1: the water he does only good for water. Absolutely, you

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Speaker 1: Tackling with the fact that I can't smell my damns out,

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. That's the key to stinking people. Stinking

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Speaker 1: people don't know they stink, living with it. They used

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Speaker 1: Uh coming up, Steve were at twenty three minutes after

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Speaker 1: the subject of today's strawberry letter, he ruined his chances

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Speaker 1: of intimacy. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Steve Harpy Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's strawberry letter he ruined his chances for intimacy. Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I want you to read the letter. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: and I'll comment throughout the letter. All right, Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I need your input. Please wonder what this is about, loudesty,

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Speaker 1: We have a nice Yeah, we have a great friendship.

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Speaker 1: tell I'm here. Far At I had sharing off the bed.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what a wonderful weekend. I had high

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Speaker 1: You've taken a shower. One of us has got to

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Speaker 1: wearing had a musky smell, and since he'd been traveling

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Speaker 1: all day, Oh dad, you say smell musca, I thought

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Speaker 1: we got in bed and he started touching me in

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Speaker 1: had high hope that it would get fistic. Let's gotta started.

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Speaker 1: We kissed and it was a good kiss, but I

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Speaker 1: still could smell his muskie smell on his shirt and

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Speaker 1: his body. Once again, Never, I was absolutely fine. Didn't

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Speaker 1: used to it? I have where's writing music? Getting back? Now,

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Speaker 1: let's finish the land of the right way. You didn't

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Speaker 1: tell me you were going to reach for the instrument.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't ready all right, Well, yeah, he ate up

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Speaker 1: Ina had demanding. He made up an excuse that he

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Speaker 1: you try drinking ale one entire dance. If y'allstrm worked,

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Speaker 1: I was probably wasn't working either. I was grateful it

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Speaker 1: didn't work because he smelled bad anyway. Um. I turned

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Speaker 1: I was already up. I saw you. He woke up

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Speaker 1: But he hadn't brushed his teeth or taken a shower yet.

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Speaker 1: If I hadn't taken a shower last night, pray tell,

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Speaker 1: why would I get up and take one in the morning. God,

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Speaker 1: I don't brush my teeth into one thirty in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: His smell got up tent. This is not your segment.

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Speaker 1: His smell was all over my house, and that's something.

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Speaker 1: I am a person that has an aura that wasn't

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Speaker 1: because he could sense I was not pleased with him.

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Speaker 1: I love because you are nagging me to shower. That's why,

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Speaker 1: my god, did you want the company or did you

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Speaker 1: want to bathe? He keeps on asking me to see

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Speaker 1: me again, to prove to me that his instrument works.

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Speaker 1: My instrument sometimes doesn't participate because it's just sometimes it

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Speaker 1: can't stand the smell. Sometimes my instrument says, O me,

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Speaker 1: damn if I stand up always to be knocked back down.

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Speaker 1: Am I being too harsh? She asked, damn it, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're being harsh. Should I tell him he stinks? I

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Speaker 1: know I stink? Oh you know what? Do you know?

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Speaker 1: Those hairs? You can't be a big husky ass man.

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Speaker 1: And no, no, I don't smell Muska. Where's my damn music? Lad?

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Speaker 1: I like to smell himself. He can't hear. I use

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Speaker 1: the music to drowned out the smell. Play the music, dammit, Frost,

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Speaker 1: she smells. Damn all right? I think when we got

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Speaker 1: out of this is please telling me stinks? Post your

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