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Speaker 1: We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry letter,

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Speaker 1: Thank you nev. Subject my marriage is stable but stale.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I have a testimony and I need

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Speaker 1: We both got caught up and ended up doing time,

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Speaker 1: When he got out, I put him through school. After that,

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Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, it sounds like you want to talk

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Speaker 1: helping him do things like that, work out things like that,

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Speaker 1: Way more fun that we ain't here punching clocks going

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Speaker 1: today's strawberry letter, the subject my marriage is stable but stale. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: can't scam from this couch, my ass right here, come

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Speaker 1: I need that for. I don't want the top scam

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Speaker 1: you want to call me a couch pretending potato chips. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not really trying to help them. But my problem

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Speaker 1: the past, I was used to getting gratification from multiple men. Damn.

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Speaker 1: That sounds nasty but okay though, And now I'm not

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Speaker 1: getting my itch properly scratch. Try not to call it itch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you need multiple men and you started itching, that

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Speaker 1: got to get your itch scratch. You got to get

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Speaker 1: I ain't no pendicella fall No, I'm Julia. I didn't

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Speaker 1: then though, you're back to be in the car girl

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Speaker 1: and the stripple. YEA, you don't want that, lady, don't

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Speaker 1: do that, she said. But I have a conscious and

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Speaker 1: that's good. I don't want to keep on being miserable

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Speaker 1: in this marriage with mediocre income and sex. See fat

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Speaker 1: boy at what he used to be. Let's just break

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Speaker 1: it down. Fat assing gott get that hunted on it.

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Speaker 1: But love making got to be str his big hands

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Speaker 1: I'm chill, sorry, but I ain't gonna do nothing about it.

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Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't do that? Or should I go

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Speaker 1: stale man? Well, here's a suggestion that might be able

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Speaker 1: But they But the dude then gave up thought, Yes,

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Speaker 1: You ain't over eating it now and it's not healthy right, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they ain't got nothing healthy for you. It ain't no

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Speaker 1: gluten free. You mean get top rumming in the sink.

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Speaker 1: You can't gain no weight over that man, and not

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Speaker 1: All her answer is if I stay with him, I'm

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