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Speaker 1: sorry man. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a thirty six year

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Speaker 1: I reready have four children and I don't need a

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Speaker 1: you're absolutely right in saying this. Uh, this grown man

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Speaker 1: You know, we as ladies were just a bit too nice,

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Speaker 1: now you know you cannot allow him to do this

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Speaker 1: come on now, let me have it. Come on, do

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Speaker 1: me for? You see, I'm homeless. All my stuff in

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Speaker 1: we ain't got no TV. That's what the baby said.

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Speaker 1: Where are you going with all these candles for here? Man? Damn?

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Speaker 1: Mama was handing. Why do we need corn flats with

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Speaker 1: this tap water on it? Mama for dinner? Mama? Did

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Speaker 1: we had corn bread yesterday? Pop? Why I got to

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Speaker 1: get hit every time I asked about this corn back? Pop? Okay, damn,

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Speaker 1: playing Madden? Is he really a vet, Steve? I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you that. Yeah, yeah, here vet. But he

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Speaker 1: I have a solution, Let's hear it. You feel unsafe,

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Speaker 1: He's worthless, and get the restraint in order because you

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Speaker 1: Its trifling, Yeah I do. She's just thirty six, she's

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Speaker 1: That's why I asked you that exact discipline people, soldiers,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of military people who are really

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Speaker 1: He's not Sureley, you said Tommy was hands You ain't

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Speaker 1: seen me on my show, bo I'm sexy. You ain't seening. Man,

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