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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you. Nephew's subject, I've fallen in love

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Speaker 1: with her boyfriend. Dear Stephen Shirley. I am a single

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Speaker 1: female and I moved to a new city three years

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Speaker 1: ago for a new job. I did not have any

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Speaker 1: family or friends in the city, but I instantly bonded

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Speaker 1: with a male coworker and we've become really close. He

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Speaker 1: was really great at helping me get settled and showing

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Speaker 1: of eight years, with a child, and I've always respected that.

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Speaker 1: We would get to flirty here and there, but it

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Speaker 1: was always harmless. At first, he'd complain about his girlfriend

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Speaker 1: and their constant arguments in their boring sex life. I

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Speaker 1: try to ignore my feelings for him, but the more

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Speaker 1: The harmless flirting turned into a one night stand, and

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Speaker 1: that one night stand turned into two years of great sex,

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Speaker 1: sometimes four times a week, and it's the best sex

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Speaker 1: we've both had. We see each other at work after

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Speaker 1: working on weekend getaways. I try to end things with

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Speaker 1: them because I'm falling in love with him, but I

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Speaker 1: the same way. He said his family has guilted him

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Speaker 1: not want to marry her. I've never pressured him to

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Speaker 1: leave her because I'm the homewrecker at this home wrecker

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Speaker 1: at this point, but I'm growing more and more jealous

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Speaker 1: of their relationship. This is something that eats at me,

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Speaker 1: and I'm finding it hard to let go of him.

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Speaker 1: How can I move on without this great man and

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Speaker 1: that I'm in love with. Should I give him him

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Speaker 1: an ultimatum and see if his heart is really with

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Speaker 1: me or with her? Could it be that he's just

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Speaker 1: bored at home? My heart is so confused. Well, what

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Speaker 1: are you confused about? I mean, what do you want.

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Speaker 1: This whole letter is about him and not enough about

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Speaker 1: you and what you want. I mean, this man is

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere. He's not going to leave you, and

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Speaker 1: why would he at this point, because he's got the

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Speaker 1: best of both worlds. He's got her, he's had her

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Speaker 1: for eight years, and he's got you. He can do

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Speaker 1: at work after work on we can get aways, he

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Speaker 1: can get it in. He's not gonna stop or he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna make a move until you do something. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't care what it is you ask about an ultimatum.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you give him an ultimatum look

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Speaker 1: her or me. I don't care if you make a

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Speaker 1: Do everything you have to do. I mean, who cares

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Speaker 1: what you do. You just gotta do something. You want change,

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Speaker 1: You gotta change it. You gotta be the one to

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Speaker 1: do it. Don't be so caught up with him and

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Speaker 1: the becks. What did you say the best sect you've

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Speaker 1: ever had? That you just continue to let him use

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Speaker 1: you because that's what he's doing. I mean, you look

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Speaker 1: up one day and it'll be you in it for

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Speaker 1: eight years. You've already put in two and nothing, so

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Speaker 1: all you have is six more to go and you'll

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Speaker 1: be just like her. And please, please do not get

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Speaker 1: just gotta tell you, you got to decide what you want.

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Speaker 1: You gotta let him know, and if you don't get

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Speaker 1: plain and simple. It's time to move on. Steve Well,

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Speaker 1: the key to this letter is I've fallen in love

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Speaker 1: with her Boyfrida, you're already, you're already behind the eight ball.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. You met this guy who's

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Speaker 1: out of town. All this, he's really great, help you

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Speaker 1: settle in. Got a girlfriend eight years and a child.

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Speaker 1: I love when people say this. I've always respected that, right,

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Speaker 1: really well, let me show you how what happens to respect.

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Speaker 1: Y'all will get flirted here and there, but it's harmless.

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Speaker 1: That ain't ever harmless little bit of flirting, trust me.

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Speaker 1: Somebody trying to get something started. And according to me,

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Speaker 1: it looked like both of y'all didn't. He complained about

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Speaker 1: feelings for him. But the more he opened up to me,

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Speaker 1: into two years of grace. Say okay, see holder hook.

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Speaker 1: See when people say a one night stand turned into

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Speaker 1: two good years of six At what point was she

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Speaker 1: even considering this just for one night? Right? Right? No,

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Speaker 1: the man had become more and more attractive to you.

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Speaker 1: That's why you had what you wanna call a one

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Speaker 1: night stand. But it was simply you starting what you've

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Speaker 1: been wanting to start for quite some time. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: for eight years. It must not be that damn bory,

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Speaker 1: right because the eight years of born sex somebody that

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Speaker 1: you're not married to. What that makes no sense? Little girl?

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Speaker 1: You the hat turned into two sometimes four times a week.

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Speaker 1: It's the best sex we've both had. We see each

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Speaker 1: other work after work on the weekend. Shirley's absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: You are so convenient to him. You're four times a

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Speaker 1: week after work and a weekend getaways. All hill, where

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Speaker 1: is this eight year relationship at if y'all having six

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Speaker 1: full times a week, it ain't but seven days in

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Speaker 1: a week. You already and took up four. He got

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Speaker 1: the babe one of them days. Hold on save, we'll

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Speaker 1: get part two of your response coming up in twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after the hour. Subject of today's Stewberry letter,

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Speaker 1: I've fallen in love with her boyfriend. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening to the Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve, come on part two

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Speaker 1: of your response to the Strawberry letter. Let's recap please,

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Speaker 1: all right, we got this lady, moved to this city,

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Speaker 1: met this man co worker. He was real helpful, helped

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Speaker 1: to get settled in. But he got this girlfriend eight

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Speaker 1: years and they got a child. She just threw that in.

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Speaker 1: He has a girlfriend of eight years and a child.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty big deal. Eight years and a baby.

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Speaker 1: But I've I've always respected that. That's what I like.

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Speaker 1: I love that line that I've always respected that because

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Speaker 1: I would want someone to respect my nationship, so I

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Speaker 1: respected his. Then one day she got sick and tired.

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Speaker 1: All this damn respect, get all this respect. Let's have

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Speaker 1: sex for one night, but I'm gonna give it to

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Speaker 1: you so good, you're gonna moan it, You're gonna want

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Speaker 1: it for a long time, and then you'll be mine.

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Speaker 1: Two years later, here she comes to write this letter,

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Speaker 1: having some great sex, best they've ever had. Four times

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Speaker 1: a week. Oh very well, that worked after work, on

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Speaker 1: the job, after the job, on the weekend. Getaways too much?

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Speaker 1: Full days a week. It's seven days in a week.

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Speaker 1: Where is this health of that he'd been with for

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Speaker 1: eight years with this baby? If you having sex with

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Speaker 1: him four times a week, how many days do the

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Speaker 1: other girl getting because he's still got to go down there?

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Speaker 1: Well that's seven days a week. You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: Got to get some damn rest. Who you are, You've

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Speaker 1: got some, so go somewhere and get your ass some rest.

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Speaker 1: I've tried to end things with because I'm falling in

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Speaker 1: love with him, but I can't seem to stay away

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Speaker 1: from him, and he feels the same way. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: because you sprung, you're whipped, you got your nose open.

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Speaker 1: You've been hammered, not hammered Yeah, that's old school. You've

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Speaker 1: been hammered. So now he said his family has guilted

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Speaker 1: him into staying with his girlfriend. What this his family fault? Now,

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Speaker 1: they didn't guilted him into staying with his girlfriend. That's

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Speaker 1: what he came up with. That's what he's telling you.

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Speaker 1: Why it has been eight years, that's why he's been

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Speaker 1: with you for two years. So let me ask you something.

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Speaker 1: If his family has guilted him to stay with the girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: why has he told you that he been with you

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Speaker 1: for two years? Have you ever thought about that? Is

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Speaker 1: it guilt? Is it love? I haven't heard you say

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Speaker 1: he's in love with you. You said you will try

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Speaker 1: to end it because you've fallen in love with him.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear you say he said that. I've never

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Speaker 1: pressured him to leave her because I'm the home wrecker

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Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, you've been that, not at this point.

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Speaker 1: You was the home wrecker two years ago. Don't think

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Speaker 1: you just got the title today because you wrote the letter.

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Speaker 1: But I'm growing more and more jealous in their relationship.

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Speaker 1: This is something that eats at me, and I'm finding

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Speaker 1: it hard to let him go. Well, let me ask

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Speaker 1: him go. What do you have? None of this belongs

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Speaker 1: can't take you over to the family's house. You ain't

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Speaker 1: you ain't. He ain't been at your house for Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: in two damn years, because he can't. You ain't had

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Speaker 1: him go, what you letting go? How can I move

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Speaker 1: This great man has two chicks, one got a baby,

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Speaker 1: and don't neither one of y'all know about each other?

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Speaker 1: Just who the great man is? Should I give him

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Speaker 1: to leave and ain't left her yet. He been with

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Speaker 1: you just two family ain't guilting him in the staying

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Speaker 1: Could it be that he's just born at home? Hell yeah?

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Speaker 1: And you all the excitement he can say, y'all everywhere

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Speaker 1: four times a week. If I'm coming by your house

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Speaker 1: four times a week, do you know what's happening when

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Speaker 1: many lies I got to tell this woman with this baby,

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Speaker 1: my girl friend to not to show up four times

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Speaker 1: a week. I'm I come in the doughte with being

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Speaker 1: gay on my back stretch. It ice a hot. I

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Speaker 1: got them bands and stuff. I'm doing beak from yoga.

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Speaker 1: I'm all this. I got a politic machine in yoga garage.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing everything. Girl, listen to me. You're in a

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Speaker 1: been great sex. That's all it is. Ask him who

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Speaker 1: would he prefer to be with? Just ask him, and

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Speaker 1: then when he gives you the answer, just say, well,

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Speaker 1: why aren't you? Because he gonna say I would prefer

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Speaker 1: And then watch this hill. That's all you gotta do.

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