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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, on dating, on sex, on parenting, on work,

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Speaker 1: to read this one right here, right now. That's for you,

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Speaker 1: Jay Anthony Brown. Bugle up, hold on tight, We got

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Speaker 1: it for you. Here. It is a Strawberry letter. All right, everyone,

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Speaker 1: here's the subject. One of my side pieces is stressing

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Speaker 1: me out. To Stephen Shirley, I am a successful executive

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Speaker 1: and my job involves a lot of travel. I've been

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Speaker 1: married for twenty years, but for the last five years,

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Speaker 1: my wife has had some medical issues and she's gained

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Speaker 1: and she's not happy with herself, so she stopped having

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Speaker 1: started seeing other women when I am on work trips.

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Speaker 1: At one time, I had four different side pieces in

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Speaker 1: four different states. They are all great women, but they

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Speaker 1: don't hold a candle to my wife. So I knew

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Speaker 1: I was wrong. Three of them used me for money

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Speaker 1: and dinners when I was in town, and that was

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Speaker 1: fine with me. But one of my side pieces fell

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Speaker 1: in love with me and wanted me to leave my

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Speaker 1: and she lost it and screamed and cried and stormed

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Speaker 1: out of my hotel. The next day, she showed up

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Speaker 1: to see me. It was an emergency. She burst into

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Speaker 1: the conference room and acted a complete fool. You slow down, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll slow it down. Your birthday. It's just a letter,

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Speaker 1: this letter. What the hell is going on this boardroom? Yeah, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll slow down. Okay, all right, uh I did it.

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Speaker 1: I'll start here. I did a very selfish thing and

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Speaker 1: Let's get back down. I told her you would never happen. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I like this line. Three of them use me for

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Speaker 1: my wife for her, that's okay, that happens to all right.

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Speaker 1: I told her that would never happen, and she lost

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Speaker 1: it and screamed and cried and stormed out of my hotel.

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Speaker 1: The next day, she showed up at my corporate office

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Speaker 1: and told the receptionist she needed to see me. It

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Speaker 1: was an emergency. Why she bursted into the conference room

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Speaker 1: and acted a complete fool and the room into the

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Speaker 1: conference room and acted a complete fool, Steve in front

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Speaker 1: of the heads of my company. Damn, let that marinade

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Speaker 1: for a minute, because all the fellows that they don't

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Speaker 1: they don't have a security that you keep a crazy

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Speaker 1: woman out. It just don't. They haven't been Steve. Breathe, guys, breathe. Okay,

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Speaker 1: boss is in here. Yeah. Yeah. She burst into the

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Speaker 1: the heads of my company. They knew she was not

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Speaker 1: my wife, so they ushered her out and told me

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Speaker 1: to get my personal affairs in order. Yeah. Huh uh huh.

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Speaker 1: I tried to call her, and when I did, I

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Speaker 1: found out she blocked my number and blocked me from

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Speaker 1: her social media accounts. She left a note at my

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Speaker 1: with her. That's where I was gonna stop on my own.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, hell is you outside for Steve to disappear?

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll continue. I have prayed and prayed about it,

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Speaker 1: and I think the best thing to do. No, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna like this line, Steve. All right, Okay, I've

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Speaker 1: prayed and prayed about it, and I think the best

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Speaker 1: are this letter already ignorant. All right, let me finish.

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Speaker 1: I've cut back on my side pieces and I just

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Speaker 1: All right, your wife? They had a crazy perfect escape

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Speaker 1: the Syke war. I have talked to my pastor to

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Speaker 1: get back on track. What do you think I should do?

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna shorten my answer and say, I think

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Speaker 1: you should tell your wife everything I know. Steve's not

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Speaker 1: gonna agree with that in the world. Now of the

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letter at twenty three after the hour, one of

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Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, this is

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Speaker 1: a crazy letter. We need to recap this one subject.

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Speaker 1: One of my side pieces is stressing me out. Breathe, breathe,

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Speaker 1: with herself, but she decided to stop having sex with me.

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Speaker 1: Then the man did a very noble thing, he said

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Speaker 1: this man know he wrongs. So he said, I did

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Speaker 1: he he know he wrong. This ain't no hero move.

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Speaker 1: He had four different side pieces and four different states.

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Speaker 1: Will you be quiet. We know what he got, and

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Speaker 1: he got him because he did a selfish move, he said,

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Speaker 1: four in folk. Yeah, we know that's a box. That's

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Speaker 1: back to make himself appear human and agonizing over his decision.

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Speaker 1: We know what the deal is trade. Just Bill Withers

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Speaker 1: come on, Bill. My friends they feel it's all pointed duty.

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Speaker 1: I told her that would never happen. You should have said,

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Speaker 1: you can't tell a crazy person facts. You have to say, oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: she'd have bought her ass down to my damn job.

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Speaker 1: know who this help. I don't know who this reception is.

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Speaker 1: call it and do like you bosses, saying get your

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Speaker 1: she had blocked your number, blocked you from all her

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Speaker 1: Let me explain something to you. He see you gonna

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to talk with who if you see

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Speaker 1: see let me you haven't been in there and talk

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Speaker 1: to these damn bosses that didn't go hood for me.

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Speaker 1: You felt going ahead and talking to my wife. Nah,

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Speaker 1: this is where I sentner Man drags the Lord in't it.

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Speaker 1: I have prayed and prayed about it. You wasn't praying

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Speaker 1: You need the Lord now? Well the Lord knew you

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Speaker 1: do is tell my wife everything. Yes, where did you start? Think?

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Speaker 1: You ain't been thinking in this whole letter? You wouldn't thinking.

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Speaker 1: said it that. You can't. You gotta let him down

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Speaker 1: That's why she in on your job. Because you're stupid.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna try to fix it. I cut back on

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Speaker 1: Steve comments. Tell you what you can do. Okay on

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM or Instagram and Facebook.

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Speaker 1: on demand now coming up at forty six minutes after

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Speaker 1: the hour. Part three of This Strawberry Letter. Steve has

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Speaker 1: stressing me out. I love that subject, I love the title.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, We're back. This Strawberry Letter is too good.

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Speaker 1: Subject one of my side pieces is stressing me out?

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Speaker 1: What you got this man? And gotten this fair with

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Speaker 1: The bosses to pull him to the side and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: get your personal affairs in office in or the order.

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Speaker 1: You know, good hair, Well, that ain't your wife all

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Speaker 1: we weig gonna slanting. She got a leopard She then

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Speaker 1: office about her, six smith, because she's been crying in

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Speaker 1: her face, got the quig, shifted, got them side burns

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Speaker 1: You have any idea what's going on in the hallway? No? Oh, no,

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Speaker 1: mister reclowner. There's a lot of David to the world

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Speaker 1: half nor heavenly Dear Lord, Jesus to God help me

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Speaker 1: in your name, Lord, I come to you with all

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Speaker 1: removed Or strike her down, Lord, take take her pulse

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Speaker 1: door name, Oh Father, God, help men come in here.

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Speaker 1: She's gonna come in here. She's gonna come in Charmagne outside.

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Speaker 1: All right, man, I think that's all on the Strawberry

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Speaker 1: Letter that we can do. You're listening to the Day

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Speaker 1: Harday Morning SHOWM.