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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, nephew. Subject to his wife's picture

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Speaker 1: a man for three years. His wife died six years ago,

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Speaker 1: and he's a single dad raising a daughter. He lives

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Speaker 1: and started dating. After a few months of dating, he

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Speaker 1: and I showed support by cooking for him occasionally and

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Speaker 1: about getting back together and I told him that's all

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Speaker 1: I ever wanted. We decided to be exclusive and talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about our future together. But there's one thing,

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Speaker 1: one problem, and I need your advice. When I'm over

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Speaker 1: at his place, I am bothered by the constant reminders

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Speaker 1: of his wife. The kitchen is just as she left it,

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Speaker 1: The picture was not there three years ago when I

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Speaker 1: stayed with him. I told him that the picture made

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Speaker 1: it by his bed. I can't tell this man how

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Speaker 1: sorry for his daughter, but I'm not going to act

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Speaker 1: like this is okay. There are several family pictures throughout

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Speaker 1: the house, and I try to overlook them. He's a

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Speaker 1: great man. He loves that we can be honest with

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Speaker 1: each other about everything. So is this one of the

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Speaker 1: things I should be honest about? How should I handle this? Well?

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Speaker 1: If you guys have that agreement that you can be

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Speaker 1: I think you are right. You cannot tell this man

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Speaker 1: how long to grieve. You can't do that. It's his

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Speaker 1: going to take however long it's going to take. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these things do take time. But you can certainly help

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Speaker 1: him move forward and find happiness again. You've been a

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Speaker 1: relationship out of the casual zone. You guys have decided

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Speaker 1: right to your nose. You said, he's a great man.

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Speaker 1: You don't want that. I really think you should. You know,

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Speaker 1: just considered a sweet memory of his late wife for

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Speaker 1: him and his baby girl, his daughter. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: guys get closer, more serious, maybe marriage, and because I'm

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Speaker 1: three year old lady casually dating a man for three years.

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Speaker 1: Casually dating takes this letter all out of focus for me.

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Speaker 1: His wife died six years ago. He's a single dad

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Speaker 1: What what man tells a woman he gonna stop seeing

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Speaker 1: three howl? Is this man? So let's see here? Was

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Speaker 1: don't know, but I don't know. Nobody that tells a

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Speaker 1: it's over, But it wasn't really over then. That was

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Speaker 1: daughters basketball games. Okay, so she probably high school or college,

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Speaker 1: one or the two. He was happy that she was understanding. Recently,

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Speaker 1: him that's all I ever wanted. Y'all have talked about

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Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? But there's one problem. I need

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Speaker 1: by the constant reminders of the wife. The kitchen is

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Speaker 1: just as she left it. Well, he wasn't in that cookie,

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Speaker 1: so she left some of stuff. He liked. Where where

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Speaker 1: just habit. What sway she dying? There, let's change his

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Speaker 1: What was he posts say to his daughter? And then said,

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Speaker 1: the ass. Not a picture got you tripping. She's looking

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Speaker 1: We'll be back at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: Subject for today his wife's pictures on the nightstand. We'll

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letters. Subject his wife's picture is on the nightstand.

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Speaker 1: This lady dating this man. Wife been deceased. He raised

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Speaker 1: his daughter. They broke up so he could spend time

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Speaker 1: with his daughter. That's what he told her, which ain't true.

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Speaker 1: They've been talking about getting back together. You for the

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Speaker 1: three years, been cooking for him. You said, that's all

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Speaker 1: you've ever wanted. And then y'all started talking about y'all's

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Speaker 1: future together. But here the problem she got. When I'm

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Speaker 1: of his wife. Ah, you mean, like that's her house

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Speaker 1: that wanted to remind us you talking about you come up,

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Speaker 1: that's the cow she sat home, that's her TV. That's

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Speaker 1: she said, the kitchen is just as she left it,

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Speaker 1: down to the notes on the refrigerator. Eat your vegetables,

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Speaker 1: back up some milk. I love you having ain't staying Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's getting on your damn nerves. When I spent the

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Speaker 1: of him and his wife on the knife stand she

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Speaker 1: that three years ago when I stayed with it. But

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Speaker 1: you've been going for a while, he probably said to

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Speaker 1: his daughter. I showed mission mom, and she said with Dad,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put the picture back out for you. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you ain't bothered by being in this woman's bead,

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Speaker 1: what the hell is this picture? Bug? And you fall?

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Speaker 1: I know why because she looking she's looking dead at you. Now,

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Speaker 1: it ain't bothered in his ass, but it's bothered in you,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it and that picture made me uncomfortably.

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Speaker 1: He said it had been in his drawer for years,

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Speaker 1: So what are he gonna do? Take it off? You

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Speaker 1: over there? Lady, Come on now, you grow now until

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Speaker 1: this gets somewhere else. But I can't tell this man

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Speaker 1: how to grieve the loss of his wife. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: what we're typing his letter fall. I'll tell you why

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Speaker 1: because I feel sorry for his daughter. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: now it's not your house. It's still his house, and

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Speaker 1: you just got back in se you're gonna mess around

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Speaker 1: to be out for you get back all the way

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Speaker 1: in that what you're ass fing to do? I'm just

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Speaker 1: telling you right now, your ass finn to mess around

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Speaker 1: he said we need a break. Now you're gonna come

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Speaker 1: now you're gonna come back in there with this little

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Speaker 1: buffalo moved right here. I'm over here. I want all

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Speaker 1: around and be out lady now, she said, And there

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Speaker 1: you all are casually dating. This is your words and

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Speaker 1: your letter. He loves that. I could that we can

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Speaker 1: How should handling run over there and say something that

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Speaker 1: you have stim and stay at your house until everything

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Speaker 1: you want to consider this here, but I'm gonna just

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Speaker 1: throw this head out. She ain't dead. What she coming home?

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Speaker 1: I'm just wanna throw that out there. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to just put that out there for you. She ain't dead. Hey,

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Speaker 1: he ain't seen her. She broke it off. Heyy dog dog.

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Speaker 1: She just over cousin's house. He's been working it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that out there. Got something for you

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Speaker 1: Let me catch your ass in here. How about that

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Speaker 1: note on the refrigerator tailor? Bee, keep her hands out

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Speaker 1: from my sugar, honey, iced team, start reading not who

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Speaker 1: hair was that on the pillowcase? You know you better

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Speaker 1: start reading these notes real careful. Now she hunting the house.

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Speaker 1: She got another damn problem. People do not do well.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be in the land one night, just a

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Speaker 1: broom handle star whooping your ass in the AMM. No,

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Speaker 1: she's dead. Here go another note? Did this note say? Boom?

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