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Speaker 1: you here. It is the Strawberry Letter subject Somebody has

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Speaker 1: a secret admirer. Dear Stephen Shirley, I really need your

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Speaker 1: the cake is that he is very funny and quite handsome.

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Speaker 1: I have been single and abstinent for abstinent for five

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Speaker 1: and I'm writing a book about my family and it

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Speaker 1: I live on the West Bank, so I'm not far

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Speaker 1: Steve could introduce me to my crush. Wow. I'm not

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Speaker 1: is my crush. I don't want to remain silent and

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Speaker 1: the best way to meet a good man like him?

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I like the way he handles his

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Speaker 1: Do I need to change my approach? Please help? Uh?

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Speaker 1: very funny. You're right about that. He's fun to be

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Speaker 1: And and did I mention? Yes, he's single, and you

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Speaker 1: you guys, this could I'm so excited right now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: It's a very good way to meet people. Yes it is.

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Speaker 1: I can give you Junior's number, his availability, I know

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Speaker 1: I love this? His voice make your toes curl? What?

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Speaker 1: Maybe surely you are, Steve, Steve, I'm gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: We don't need that catfishing anymore. Crush, you ain't catfishing

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Speaker 1: at least ten years. Tommy's Tips, two thousand and three

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Speaker 1: Nail Carter, I'm judging from ask you questions, judging from

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Speaker 1: could you give me a profile? What type of person

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Speaker 1: we deal it with? Yeah? Ask me a series of

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Speaker 1: she hard? No, no, you can't come up out it

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Speaker 1: What else? Okay? Any kind? Is it a good thing

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Speaker 1: she's been abstinent for a while, celibate. That's scary five years?

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Speaker 1: just ain't nobody saying nothing? Come on? Or it is

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Speaker 1: lel I think she wanted you before me? Tom ain't

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Speaker 1: a need to want me, I'm unwonable. I ain't even wonnable. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So what what happened all of a sudden that now

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna be too cold. Oh, I like how

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Speaker 1: Junior not handsome? Yeah, Julie is not handsome. You're not handsome.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay looking. I'm not even show about that.

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Speaker 1: This is flat out June Bull crazy person. Well, I

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Speaker 1: best way to me to man, she's moving on. Junior

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Speaker 1: is available, but we need a picture telling him the

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Speaker 1: to the bomb it is today. You're listening to Harvey

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