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Speaker 1: Thank you nephew. Subject why does my husband go out

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Speaker 1: without me? Dear Stephen Shirley. My husband and I decided

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Speaker 1: early against having children. We have a great social life

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Speaker 1: and our house is still the hangout spot for our friends.

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Speaker 1: He's sixty one and I'm fifty nine, and we have

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Speaker 1: made the marriage work for twenty seven years. Last year

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Speaker 1: I found out he was cheating. His lover kept calling

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Speaker 1: his phone over and over, so I told him to

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Speaker 1: handle it. He told me that he handled it. I

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Speaker 1: decided not to stress about it because there was nothing

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Speaker 1: I could do to stop him from cheating, and I

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Speaker 1: was not ready to leave him and be alone, so

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask any questions. He did all he could

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Speaker 1: to show me how remorseful he was for cheating, and

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Speaker 1: I was just happy that our friends didn't find out,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't have to deal with the embarrassment and stress.

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Speaker 1: But my girlfriends knew about it all along and didn't

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Speaker 1: say a word until recently. We had a kickback at

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Speaker 1: the house and a group of my girls were there.

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Speaker 1: When my husband left to buy more ice. They cornered me.

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Speaker 1: One of my closest friends asked why my husband is

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Speaker 1: always going out without me. I asked why she was

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Speaker 1: asking me that in front of everyone, and I assured

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Speaker 1: her that my husband is always home. The other lady said,

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Speaker 1: they know for a fact that's not true. They told

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Speaker 1: me that my husband has been sleeping with the lady

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Speaker 1: that lives behind us for over a year, and he

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Speaker 1: gets away with it because I let him. They tried

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Speaker 1: I really don't care about her. I'm more upset than

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Speaker 1: my friends now know what's up. I'm still not prepared

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Speaker 1: to leave my comfortable life with my husband, but I'm

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Speaker 1: concerned about how people perceive me. Should I have some

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Speaker 1: dignity and finally confront my husband, Well, I don't think

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Speaker 1: this is really about dignity at this point, because if

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Speaker 1: it was about dignity, you wouldn't be so okay with

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Speaker 1: your husband's cheating. I mean, you wouldn't be so worried

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Speaker 1: about what your girlfriends are saying. You would be more

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Speaker 1: concerned about what your husband is doing. He's cheating and

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Speaker 1: humiliating you, but you say you don't care, and you're

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Speaker 1: willing to stay in this marriage, cheating and all as

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Speaker 1: long as you say face with your friends, that's what's

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Speaker 1: important to you. So you've made your choice as far

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Speaker 1: as that's concerned, and the winner is your husband and

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Speaker 1: his cheating apparently, and your comfortable life with him. So

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Speaker 1: if that's what it is, why don't you stand on

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Speaker 1: that and let your nosy girlfriends know how you feel.

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Speaker 1: Tell them to stay out of your business because you

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Speaker 1: are staying with your husband and your nice, comfortable life

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Speaker 1: with your husband. But now, if it truly is dignity

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Speaker 1: you want and that you're concerned about, then stop listening

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Speaker 1: to your girlfriends, and yes, do confront your husband and

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Speaker 1: try to straighten this mess out.

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Speaker 2: Steve uh She said that her husband and I decided

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Speaker 2: early against having children. Okay, what that got to do

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Speaker 2: with any damn things. See just how I know now

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Speaker 2: that this lady Finna tell a story that's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a little off, because I kept waiting on this to

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Speaker 2: come into the letter and it never did. She opens

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Speaker 2: it with this Sheirley Stephen Shirley, my husband. I decided

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Speaker 2: early against having children. Okay, we have a great social

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Speaker 2: life and our house is still to hang out spot

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Speaker 2: for our friends. He's sixty one, I'm fifty nine. Okay,

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Speaker 2: We've had a mainly marriage work for twenty seven years.

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Speaker 2: Then she said, last year I found out he was

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Speaker 2: cheating because his lover kept calling his phone so I

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Speaker 2: over and over. So I told him to handle it.

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Speaker 2: He told me he handled it. I decided not to

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Speaker 2: stress about it because there was nothing I could do

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Speaker 2: leave him and be alone. So I ain't asked no question. What?

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Speaker 2: What where his wife at? Who is this wife right here? What?

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Speaker 2: Let me read this again so you can understand the

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Speaker 2: depth of my concern. Last year I found out he

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Speaker 2: was cheating. His lover kept calling his phone over and over,

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Speaker 2: so I told him to handle it. He told me

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Speaker 2: ask any questions. What what? What? What? Woman? What? Black woman? What? Woman?

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Speaker 2: Who do this? I'm concerned. I told him to handle it.

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Speaker 2: He told me he did that was it? Wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: if you get caught cheating, your wife tell you the

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Speaker 2: handle it? You say I did, and she ain't want

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Speaker 2: to ask you no more questions about it. Boy, if

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Speaker 2: that's how it went, do you know cheating would increase

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Speaker 2: by eighty seven percent. I wasn't ready to leave him

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Speaker 2: and be alone, so I ain't asked no questions. He

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Speaker 2: did all he could to show me how remorseful he

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Speaker 2: was for cheating. Why you ain't asking no questions? How

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Speaker 2: much he got the show? If you ain't asking me

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Speaker 2: no questions? What all did he do? I handle it?

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Speaker 2: I was just happy that our friends didn't find out?

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Speaker 2: What's your friends? See? This is where? Now? See this?

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Speaker 2: This is where you're more concerned about your image than reality.

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Speaker 2: I'm just happy my girlfriends but and so I didn't

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Speaker 2: have to deal with the embarrassment and stress, and my

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Speaker 2: girlfriends found out. Then she said, but my girlfriends knew

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Speaker 2: about it all along and didn't say a word until recently.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, hang on, Steve, Yeah, we'll have

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Speaker 1: part two of your response Steve coming up in twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after today's Strawberry letter subject why does my

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Speaker 1: husband go out without me? We'll get back into it

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Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening Steve Hard Morning Show. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter subject why does

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Speaker 1: my husband go out without me?

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Speaker 2: You this letter was gonna be full of incomplete statements

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Speaker 2: when she said, Steven Shirley, my husband and I decided

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Speaker 2: early against having children. All that comes into play in

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Speaker 2: this letter nowhere. So this was to throw us off.

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Speaker 2: You know when a person makes a statement like that

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Speaker 2: is to throw you off. So you so you be

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Speaker 2: digging for that detail, so you don't ask for no

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Speaker 2: more detail. Because she good at not asking questions, so

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Speaker 2: she don't want us to ask none either, So she

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Speaker 2: tried to throw us off with these bread crumbs to

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Speaker 2: lead us down this Donnie buck path, Donnie brook path

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Speaker 2: about these and my husband and I decided not to

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Speaker 2: have children. They've been married twenty seven years. They got

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Speaker 2: a lot of friends and they Kyles is still to

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Speaker 2: was cheating on me because his lover kept calling his phone.

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Speaker 2: I told him to handle it. He told me he

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Speaker 2: because there was nothing I could do to stop him

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Speaker 2: and be alone. So I ain't asked no questions. This

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Speaker 2: is the greatest woman I've ever met. This woman is

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Speaker 2: I just I don't know where she is. She's raped,

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Speaker 2: She's rare. She's like finding the world's biggest diamond at Costco,

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Speaker 2: like your chances of finding baby all at Costco, because

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Speaker 2: the CEO Costco came out and said they don't even

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Speaker 1: Or Bunny book right.

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Speaker 2: So I didn't want to leave him be alone, so

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Speaker 2: I ain't asked no questions. He did all he could

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Speaker 2: to show me how remorseful he was for cheating. I

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Speaker 2: was just happy that our friends didn't find out, so

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Speaker 2: But my girlfriends knew about it all along, and it

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Speaker 2: ain't saying a word intes. Okay, this is how she

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Speaker 2: found out. We had a kick back at the house. Okay,

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Speaker 2: right there, that's old. That's hey, listen to me. Don't

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Speaker 2: nobody do that no more? Then it is out of style.

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Speaker 2: Call kids, that's what they called it. Kickback. That's what

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Speaker 2: they call oh they do. Oh okay, well I ain't

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Speaker 2: know that because it ain't. None of them living with

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Speaker 2: drink them all. You're gonna drink at my house you

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Speaker 2: have at your own house. Now, my kids when they

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Speaker 2: and everything something all right? Oh, they recently told me

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Speaker 2: they coined me. One of my closest friends asked me,

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Speaker 2: why is my husband always going out with me? I

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Speaker 2: asked her why. She asked me that in front of everybody,

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Speaker 2: and I assured her that my husband was always home.

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Speaker 2: Well that's two lives right there. You are sured that

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Speaker 2: without you. You know how hard it is to cheat

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Speaker 2: if you got to, if you trying to make you

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Speaker 2: stay in the car, you can't. Lady, why is your

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Speaker 2: the car. Whose house is this? I'm just running in

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Speaker 2: hedne fix me something to eat. I'm gonna go in

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 2: I told him my husband's always home. Then the other

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Speaker 2: They told me that my husband has been sleeping with

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Speaker 2: because you can. You can park your car in your driveway,

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Speaker 2: go in the garage, cut a hole in the back

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Speaker 2: If she stayed right back there and for over a

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Speaker 2: They tried to tell me about the woman, but I

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Speaker 2: more upset than my friends. Know what's up. I'm still

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Speaker 2: not prepared to leave my comfortable life with my husband.

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Speaker 2: But I'm concerned about how people perceive me. Should I

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Speaker 2: have some dignity? And finally, confront my husband. I have

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Speaker 2: more upset than my friends. Know what's up. I'm not

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: It's because listen to this, y'all. You prefer a lifestyle

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Speaker 2: over your style of life. Play on words. You prefer

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Speaker 2: sit there and be sick to your stomach and act

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Speaker 2: like something ain't happening so you can have a few,

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Speaker 2: uh you know, you know, comforts of home. But I

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Speaker 2: some dignity? And finally, here's how you get dignity. Tell

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