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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Blessed all right? Subject wow, Subject I

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Speaker 1: have two perfect boyfriends. Dear Stephen Shirley. I am a

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Speaker 1: forty nine year old divorce woman with two grown children.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago, I prayed that God send me a

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Speaker 1: real good man and life partner. I was dating with

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Speaker 1: a purpose and I had a list of non negotiables

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Speaker 1: and must have. Six months into praying and dating, I

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Speaker 1: met the most incredible man and he checked off nine

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Speaker 1: of the ten boxes on my list. He lives in

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Speaker 1: a different state, so either I visited him or he

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Speaker 1: comes to see me twice a month. I was praying,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't being stupid enough to put all of

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Speaker 1: my eggs in one basket. I kept dating men in

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Speaker 1: my hometown. Shortly after I met the first guy, I

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Speaker 1: and he too checked off nine of the ten boxes

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Speaker 1: on my list. I've been seeing them both and having

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Speaker 1: the best time. I was waiting to see if one

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Speaker 1: of them would switch up and change so I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have a hard time dumping one of them. But they

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Speaker 1: have both remained consistently wonderful, and I can honestly say

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Speaker 1: that I love them both. I have two of the

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Speaker 1: best relationships that a woman could dream of. There's no drama,

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Speaker 1: no arguing, and no issues. I know that I'm the

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Speaker 1: only I know that I'm the only woman that they

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Speaker 1: are seeing and have keys to their homes. I have

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Speaker 1: keys to their homes. I want this to work, and

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Speaker 1: I even jokingly asked both of them about a polyamorous relationship.

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Speaker 1: They said that would be great, but only if they

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Speaker 1: could have more than one woman. They both talk about

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Speaker 1: marriage and how long they have searched For a woman

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Speaker 1: like me, I can't decide which one would make the

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Speaker 1: best life partner. I don't want to hear a lecture

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Speaker 1: about how I am playing two men, because men do

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Speaker 1: it all the time. I'm having a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: but I need to stop playing before they find out

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Speaker 1: about each other. How can I choose one over the other? Well, now,

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Speaker 1: aren't sure? Just living your best life? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: many women I'll say this, complain about not having or

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Speaker 1: not being able to find one good man. And here

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Speaker 1: you are with two good boyfriends, perfect boyfriends. And how

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Speaker 1: convenient that one of them lives out of town. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how convenient is that one lives in town and one

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Speaker 1: lives out of town? So you know there won't be

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Speaker 1: any cross pollination or anything going on in your life.

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Speaker 1: You're right about you know. I can understand that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear a lecture about having two boy friends,

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Speaker 1: because yes, men do it all the time and no

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Speaker 1: one says anything. Humh. But guess what, You're not a man,

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Speaker 1: and there is a double standard when it comes to this.

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Speaker 1: There is just a double standard in the world. But hey,

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Speaker 1: have your fun while you can okay, because you know

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Speaker 1: this isn't going to last forever. You've already said you

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Speaker 1: need to stop before they find out. You've asked them

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Speaker 1: about a polyamorous relationship and they liked it, but only

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Speaker 1: gotta ask you, did that make you think or feel anything? Like?

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Speaker 1: You know, while you're out of town, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: you're out of town guy, while you're out of town

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Speaker 1: with him, Maybe you know what's he doing when you're

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Speaker 1: not in town. Maybe he might be doing that. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: It's just a thought, just a thought. But to the

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Speaker 1: that decision. You know, ask yourself these questions. Which one

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Speaker 1: Which one can you depend on the most? You know,

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Speaker 1: your dream? So if one of those fits all that criteria,

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Speaker 1: like I said, only you can make that choice, Steve. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: I have two perfect boyfriends. I normally don't do this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna start at the bottom of the letter.

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Speaker 1: How can I choose one over the other? First of all,

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Speaker 1: let me say I'm having a lot of fun, but

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Speaker 1: each other. How can I choose one over the other? Well,

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Speaker 1: I really don't give a damn. I really don't. I

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Speaker 1: this problem that you wrote in that you're having. This

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Speaker 1: is a problem. You create it yourself, and you're having

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Speaker 1: fun and you don't won't know Leckhell, so what you

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Speaker 1: write me for? I don't give a damn who you choose.

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Speaker 1: I don't give a damn who find out. But I

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Speaker 1: tell you what I will do when we come back, though,

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Speaker 1: I will tell you something in here that you didn't

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Speaker 1: write in here. But I'm inform you about something about

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Speaker 1: me and Sistem, because once you play this game with men,

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Speaker 1: you messing with somebody who played this game for real.

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Speaker 1: Men are not as smart as women. But we all

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Speaker 1: ain't really that damn dumb, though, thank you. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: You just need to tell you that as smart as women,

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Speaker 1: but we ain't really that damn dumb, though, And you

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give it back to you when we

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Speaker 1: come back. All right, Steve, we'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: Subject of today's strawberry letter, I have two perfect boyfriends.

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Speaker 1: Will get back into it right after this. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to show a right Steve, Come on, let's recap today's

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Speaker 1: strawberry letter. I have two perfect boyfriends. Like I said

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Speaker 1: after I read the bottom of the letter, I'm having

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun, but I need to stop playing

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Speaker 1: for they find out about each other. How can I

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Speaker 1: choose one over the other? And I said before we

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Speaker 1: I don't kill which one you pick? I don't because

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Speaker 1: Like I said it earlier, women are smarter than men,

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Speaker 1: But men ain't that dumb though. And now I'm thin

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Speaker 1: to walk you through this letter and show you what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Now you forty nine years old, you

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Speaker 1: care about this. Later, two years ago, I prayed that

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Speaker 1: God send me a real good man and a life partner.

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Speaker 1: I was dating with a purpose, and I had a

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Speaker 1: list of non negotiable and must have six. Most into

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Speaker 1: praying and dating, I met the most incredible man. He

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Speaker 1: He lives in a different states, so either I visit

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Speaker 1: answering your prayers. I was praying, but I wasn't being

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Speaker 1: Pump your brains. You mean to tell me now that

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Speaker 1: you prayed to God for something. God gave it to you.

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Speaker 1: But now you don't trust God. Now you think God

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Speaker 1: after you've been praying all this time, Lord, Jesus, Father God,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't stupid enough to put all my What you

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Speaker 1: really said was I wasn't stupid enough to just accept

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Speaker 1: You've been praying to God, so if he send it

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Speaker 1: to you, he perfect. What's that you added this complication?

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Speaker 1: You drug this other man into this after God gave

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Speaker 1: you what you asked for. But but I'm goin to

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Speaker 1: show you something now, short life, that I met this guy.

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Speaker 1: I met another really incredible guy that lives in my city,

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Speaker 1: from God. The other one is from you and your greed. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I see in this letter.

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Speaker 1: I've been seeing them both and having the best time.

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Speaker 1: best relationships that a woman could dream of. Uncle, there's

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Speaker 1: go this one, Finn, Teach yourself. I know that I'm

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Speaker 1: that foolishness. That's why I don't even learn stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Somebody don't care about you, because now I'm gonna teach

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Speaker 1: a lot of good ass fun. Because you can't pray

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