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Speaker 1: it is Strawberry letter, Thank you nephew. Subject I'm in

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Speaker 1: too deep with this guy. Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been

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Speaker 1: is strictly sexual. When we first met, he told me

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Speaker 1: needs when she's so far away. When we first met

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Speaker 1: at a club, and I would run into him at

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Speaker 1: local parties, so we were bound to hook up sooner

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Speaker 1: or later. We have sex often, and it's really good sex.

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Speaker 1: I am the one who satisfies his sexual needs and

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Speaker 1: desires while his girlfriend is away. I have a problem, though,

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Speaker 1: When his girlfriend is in town. I often run into

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Speaker 1: my guy and his girlfriend in the club or at parties.

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Speaker 1: I have to see him all up on her, dancing

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Speaker 1: seductively and giving her public displays of affection right in

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Speaker 1: and I have realized that I'm catching feelings for this guy.

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Speaker 1: I have started to question myself because his girlfriend is

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Speaker 1: pretty and she's a great body, but so do I.

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Speaker 1: I am also very well educated, and I could easily

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Speaker 1: be any man's prize possession. I recently turned forty, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's time for me to stop playing

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Speaker 1: gangs and get what I deserve. I feel like I

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Speaker 1: deserve this guy, and I no longer to desire to

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Speaker 1: be his side chick. I have been hinting at it,

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Speaker 1: and he tells me that I am a great woman

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Speaker 1: him and give him an ultimatum? Or do you think

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Speaker 1: he would just discard me and get another side chick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything you said in your letter is true, so you

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Speaker 1: already know the answer. I mean even before you wrote

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Speaker 1: in yeah, he'll probably just discard you and get someone else,

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Speaker 1: because the girlfriend that he has that lives out of

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Speaker 1: for this. You signed up for this in your second line,

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Speaker 1: this relationship is strictly sexual. You said it. You said

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Speaker 1: you said you have sex often it's really good sex.

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Speaker 1: You're the one who satisfies him. Yeah, you're doing all

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Speaker 1: the work. But he was honest with you. He told

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Speaker 1: no plans to break up with her. He told you,

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Speaker 1: and you accepted all of this. I mean, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Things changed because guess what, we as women aren't built

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Speaker 1: for this. We aren't built like this. But you already

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Speaker 1: know the answers. You're pretty, you have a beautiful body,

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Speaker 1: you're very well educated, all that. You could easily be

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Speaker 1: any man's prize possession. You recently turned forty. It's time

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Speaker 1: for you to stop playing games. Okay, well stop stop.

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Speaker 1: Let this man go on and be with this woman

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Speaker 1: that he's had before you, since and after you, and

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Speaker 1: you go on at forty and get your own man. Okay,

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Speaker 1: get your own man. You just like you caught feelings

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Speaker 1: for him because you were being so sexual and everything

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Speaker 1: So get yourself together, raise your self esteem, and get

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Speaker 1: what you truly deserve. You already know this, Steve. This

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Speaker 1: you know I read these letters and I read them

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Speaker 1: woman lies. I just don't like that. And Sister, I

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Speaker 1: hate to tell you this, but if you would just

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Speaker 1: stop lying, you could be okay. I've been seeing a

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Speaker 1: guy's faith most now in our relationship is strictly sexual.

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Speaker 1: That's a lie. It's a lie. It's been stopped being

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Speaker 1: strictly sexual for you quite some time ago. That's not true.

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Speaker 1: but she can't fulfill his needs when she's far away.

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Speaker 1: All he said was, I'd be wanting to have sex

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Speaker 1: we were bound to hook up sooner or later? Why? Why?

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Speaker 1: What that means I'd ran up into a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: several events. You've looked over at him, and you made

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Speaker 1: I'm the one who satisfies his sexual needs and desires

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Speaker 1: when his girlfriend was This one gets women into trouble.

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Speaker 1: See women, you suught your such nurturers. You oftentimes think

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Speaker 1: can't supply your needs, I tell you what. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Now I got a problem though, because when his girlfriend

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Speaker 1: kind of small ass town is this a little bit

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Speaker 1: on her, dancing seductively and giving her public displays on

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Speaker 1: he has no intentions of breaking up with Why are

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Speaker 1: you forgetting this here? It's supposed to be in front

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Speaker 1: He told us to the girl. Hang on, Steve right here, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Letters subject I'm in too deep with this guy. This

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Speaker 1: strictly sexual. Nothing after this letter says it's strictly sexual.

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Speaker 1: You got a girlfriend living in another state, has no

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Speaker 1: So we was bound the hook up sooner or later.

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Speaker 1: What Who makes that damn statement? I keep seeing him

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Speaker 1: and Wayne must be a sign from the Lord. You've

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Speaker 1: seen everybody in that town though, Yeah, every time I

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Speaker 1: when she in town, he ain't in your face because

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Speaker 1: I have realized that I'm catching feelings for this guy.

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Speaker 1: Another lie, another lie, I'm catching feelings for this guy.

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Speaker 1: No you called them, Yeah, you've ben't had him, You've

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Speaker 1: But so do I. Okay, Well, I'm also very well educated,

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Speaker 1: and I could here the line, y'all, I'm also very

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Speaker 1: well educated, and I could easily be any man's prize possession. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know why you're not. First of all, you are

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Speaker 1: any man's prize possession. You are you are, you are

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Speaker 1: See when you act like a number two, then you

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Speaker 1: you can have some of this anyway while she ain't here. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what, he still ain't leaving, honey, keep bringing other

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Speaker 1: desire to be his side chick. That's true, those are

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Speaker 1: probably real feelings you have it you no longer desire

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Speaker 1: here we go. You can want to want a man

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Speaker 1: to be his girl, what we got him? We just

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Speaker 1: have in the beginning. I have been hinting at it,

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Speaker 1: I tell him that I want to be with him

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Speaker 1: It's what he meant in the beginning, and you would

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Speaker 1: me and get another side? Check? Now, it ain't about

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Speaker 1: another side, chick, It's about the chick. He got He

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Speaker 1: got you because you signed up for it. All you

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Speaker 1: and went wold, she had number one. Let me look

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