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Speaker 1: For years, I've been flirting with this guy, but he

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Speaker 1: only see him when I go out, and he's bought

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Speaker 1: me a drink before, but that's it. Now I've lost

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Speaker 1: a good friend over this guy, and he is not

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Speaker 1: even interested in me. The other day, a mutual friend

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Speaker 1: look at her Facebook page. I went to her Facebook

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Speaker 1: them and the caption was I said, yes, they are engaged.

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Speaker 1: This woman stole the man of my dreams, the man

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Speaker 1: I have loved since high school. I was mad as hell,

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Speaker 1: Here's where I need your advice. I found out the date,

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Speaker 1: decide if I'm going to write the word or on

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do something. She ruined my life, so

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Speaker 1: I want to ruin her wedding. Please tell me that

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Speaker 1: I do? Please advise? Okay, no one has ruined your life.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're only twenty three. Okay, you're only

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old, and you are crazy. Yeah, really,

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Speaker 1: in this letter, I mean, how dare you even consider

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Speaker 1: ruining their wedding? That's so ridiculous. You are a hater

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Speaker 1: in every sense of the word. Your mutual friend was right.

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Speaker 1: How could she steal the man of your dreams when

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Speaker 1: he was never yours to begin with. You just had

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Speaker 1: time of day. He was not interested in you. You

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Speaker 1: said that in your letter, in your own words. He was, however,

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Speaker 1: interested in your best friend. You had no claim on

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Speaker 1: now you're crazy. Behind has probably lost a good friend

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Speaker 1: over this foolishness. This is really crazy, and please don't

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Speaker 1: His family members are gonna be there. Her family members

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Speaker 1: let you write the word hohor on her car as

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Speaker 1: This letter is for everybody out there that thought something

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Speaker 1: requires some form of medical attention. I need to go

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Speaker 1: This twenty three year old girl crazy, no, no, damn back,

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Speaker 1: flying out of a cave in the daytime. Why your

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Speaker 1: You ain't as fine and beautiful as you. Thank you all.

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Speaker 1: You wrote this letter. You're not as fine as you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you all. He met your friend and was enamored

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. It's a pitch in him and she said, yes,

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Speaker 1: today's strawberry letter. I'm not letting him go without a fight.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to recap nothing. This nutt ass woman

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Speaker 1: that's twenty three years old and wrote a damn letter

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Speaker 1: because she beautiful and find us hell, but not to him. No, see,

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Speaker 1: that's a real wake up call. You're flirting with him

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Speaker 1: I see him when I go out to the club.

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Speaker 1: He hadn't bought me a drink before. That's it. Now.

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Speaker 1: The title of this letter is let me go back here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not letting him go without a fight. You're not

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Speaker 1: letting who go. You ain't ever had him. See, in

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Speaker 1: order to let something go, you must have possession of it. See,

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Speaker 1: ain't nobody told told you that? But you've never taken

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Speaker 1: It's a picture him and her, and the picture and

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Speaker 1: the picture says, I said, yes, this woman stole the

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Speaker 1: man of my dreams, the man I have loved since

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Speaker 1: high school. See, the man of my dreams. You were

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Speaker 1: loved since high school. He ain't ever loved you. Well,

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Speaker 1: it was just my imagination to dance again. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: Now here's where I need your advice. I found out

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Speaker 1: you understand. No, no, we don't. Maybe he just needs

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Speaker 1: what should I do? All right, now, let me just

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Speaker 1: know somebody paid for this wing. You're gonna set the

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Speaker 1: The girl ain't no horror the girl. He never cheated

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Speaker 1: whearing because she ruined your what. No, you didn't have

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Speaker 1: this off. Let bygones be bygones. The man never wanted you.

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Speaker 1: You was interested in him. You had a crush on him.

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Speaker 1: He ain't handle crush on you. He saw your girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: That's what he wanted. They're getting married. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to go down to this web, but I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: No ask him to be on TMZ and you ain't

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Speaker 1: even facing you gonna be, but you're gonna damn show

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Speaker 1: beyond a world Star back. Yeah, you gonna damn show

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Speaker 1: beyond that. You might not make TIMZ because you ain't famous,

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Speaker 1: You have so much cake, you got cake icing everyonem.

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Speaker 1: All right, stee, we gotta get out of here. Email

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Speaker 1: hear me, don't go down at the Black People's Wedding

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