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Speaker 1: It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you

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Speaker 2: It could be yours. Ladiesship, It's time for the Strawberry Litter.

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Speaker 2: My good friend, Shirley straw Berry, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, my good friend. Junior. Subject smoke and Mirrors. Dear Stephen, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm in a long distance relationship with a man that

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Speaker 1: my daughter hooked me up with. He's a bodybuilder, and

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Speaker 1: my daughter met him at her gym. She said. She

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Speaker 1: was looking in the mirror working out when he came

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Speaker 1: the mirror. She said, Other than being vain, he's extremely

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Speaker 1: quiet and nerdy. He and I talked a lot in

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Speaker 1: the beginning, and it was fun to have someone to

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Speaker 1: or was planning to smoke weed at any minute. After

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Speaker 1: a few months, of doing video chats, he wanted to

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Speaker 1: especially since my daughter lives in the same city. He

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Speaker 1: but I left after he told me what he had

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Speaker 1: I saw condoms on his nightstand and I was totally

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Speaker 1: He asked what I was into sexually, and I was

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Speaker 1: shocked because we'd never talked about fetish's and role playing.

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Speaker 1: He told me what he wanted to do to me sexually,

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Speaker 1: and went to my daughter's apartment. He hasn't called or

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Speaker 1: texted me since, but he told my daughter I am

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Speaker 1: too shy and hard to get along with. Should I

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Speaker 1: explain the smoke and mirrors to my daughter or let

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Speaker 1: her keep thinking that the breakup was all my fault?

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Speaker 1: Please help? Who cares what he says? That's what I say?

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Speaker 1: Who cares? And why do you feel compelled to tell

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Speaker 1: That still doesn't make you obligated. It's simply not her business.

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Speaker 1: You can just say that it didn't work out and

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Speaker 1: keep it moving. What I don't get is why you

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Speaker 1: man you hardly knew. I mean, you say you're in

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Speaker 1: a long distance relationship with him, but you're not in it.

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Speaker 1: You just talk to this guy. You're not in a

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Speaker 1: couple of things about this guy. One is that he

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Speaker 1: smokes weed all of the time. Your daughter's house would

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Speaker 1: have been the choice. That would have been a safer,

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you got out of his house when

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Speaker 2: You don't know.

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Speaker 1: Then you get to his house and realized he only

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Speaker 1: want his sex from you, and that's it, really, Mom.

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Speaker 1: I think you need to slow down, sis, because you

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Speaker 1: don't know what you want. I mean, you were insulted

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Speaker 1: he could have at least put those up, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: You didn't do enough homework or research on this guy

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Speaker 1: You went from video chatting with him, thinking you're in

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Speaker 1: and I don't want you out here acting desperate in

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you left early. I hope you learned what

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Speaker 3: Steve, Well, it's a lot to unpack here, but really

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Speaker 3: nothing to unpack. This is a woman, and see I'm

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Speaker 3: in a long distance relationship with a man that my

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Speaker 3: She said, other than being vain, he's extremely quiet and nerdy. Okay,

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Speaker 3: other than being vain, he's extremely quiet and nerdy.

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Speaker 2: Do that make sense to you? Together? Not at all.

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Speaker 2: It just don't go together at all.

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Speaker 3: Therefore, I think your daughter gave you initially a bad read.

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Speaker 3: You took the time to start talking him facetiming and stuff,

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Speaker 3: and you got an even worse read on this guy.

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Speaker 3: You said, he and I talked a lot in the beginning.

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Speaker 3: It was fun to have someone to talk to. Let's

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Speaker 3: stop for a minute. What did you just say?

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Speaker 2: You heard it?

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Speaker 3: It was fun to have someone to talk to. Where

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Speaker 2: Have you been in disposed?

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Speaker 3: Have you been at a convent, have you been up

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Speaker 3: in the mountains at a retreat? Have you just retired

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Speaker 3: from being a monk in a Buddhist temple? What did

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Speaker 3: you get? It was nice to have somebody to talk to.

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Speaker 3: So what she's not saying is she was lonely. I

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Speaker 3: that every time we talked, he was smoking weed or had.

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Speaker 1: Just I lost he was smoking weed, or had just

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Speaker 2: Point is I didn't make no sense to me.

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Speaker 3: Look the fact that every time we talked he was

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Speaker 2: The time, all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's all she knew about him. All right, we'll have

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Speaker 1: part two of your response coming up, Steve. To today's

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Speaker 1: is smoking mirras. We'll be back right after this. You're

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Speaker 1: listening morning show, All right, Steve, Come on, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letter. The sub checked smoke and mirrors.

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Speaker 3: Here's a woman who is obviously extremely lonely. Her daughter

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Speaker 3: lives out of state. Meets this man at the gym.

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Speaker 3: She was working out, looking at herself in the mirror.

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Speaker 3: He came and stood in front of her. They met

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Speaker 3: Your daughter does not know how to assess people. You

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Speaker 3: meet the man, y'all get on the phone, y'all start talking.

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Speaker 3: He and I talked a lot in the beginning, and

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Speaker 2: What what so? Who are you?

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Speaker 3: It was fun to have someone to talk to. Okay,

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Speaker 3: now where you being lady? I overlooked the fact that

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Speaker 2: I was playing in the smoke weed at any minute.

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Speaker 2: Why is the nerdy quiet person that hard talk when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and hell, he might not be quiet, he might

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Speaker 3: just be sleepy a lot. After a few months of

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Speaker 3: doing video chats, he wanted to see me. I told

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Speaker 3: makes sense. He bought me a ticket and asked me

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Speaker 2: Who flew you.

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Speaker 3: Out there to stay in the guest room. If you

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Speaker 3: on with these video chats because at least I can

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Speaker 2: All right, all right.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I guess how I'll come on and go to end.

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Speaker 3: But I left after he told me what he had

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Speaker 3: his bedroom. Well, I don't see what's wrong with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: He got to see hisself when he get up. But

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Speaker 3: he has some other plans for you. Now, you turned

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Speaker 2: I kind of like that myself. I don't have it.

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Speaker 3: But to me, he asked me what I was into sexually,

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Speaker 3: and I was shocked because we never talked about fetishes

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Speaker 3: and role playing. Well, but you have talked about sex.

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Speaker 3: See that's what she didn't put in that. Y'all just

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Speaker 1: But everything else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you lying if you think all in video

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Speaker 2: That's not true.

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Speaker 3: He told me what he wanted to do to me sexually,

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Speaker 3: and he said we could watch ourselves in the mirror

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Speaker 3: in the mirrors is for. That's what the condumns is

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Speaker 1: Backs facts back, Steve Harvey.

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Speaker 3: There's some stuff in that draws though. I got an

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Speaker 3: uber right away and went to my daughter's apartment. Well,

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Speaker 3: So should I explain this? Okay, hold on, he ain't

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Speaker 3: called the text me since then. But he told my daughter,

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, this is done.

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Speaker 3: Quiet nerd that just told your daughter that you too

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Speaker 3: a poor assessment of man. But, like Shirley said, what

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Speaker 3: do you care what the hell he think or what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let your daughter dat him.

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Speaker 3: She like going to the jail, She like looking at

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Speaker 2: I don't really see what you want us to do.

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Speaker 3: So should I let my daughter keep thinking that the

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Speaker 3: breakup was all my fault? Please help? Just really, you

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Speaker 3: really don't have a problem. You're not going back up there.

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Speaker 3: You're not into fetish's and role playing. You don't like

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Speaker 3: looking at yourself in the mirror because you probably get

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Speaker 3: out to bed and you know, I'm like cool walking

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Speaker 3: towards it. But when you turn sideways in that float

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Speaker 3: the ceiling mirror, we could throw your ass into.

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Speaker 1: Something so stupid. What is that?

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Speaker 2: Did you be walking to me? Be going all right?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Then you turn to the side, and it'd be like,

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Speaker 3: It is shocking, and so that's what it is. And

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Speaker 3: so you know, I don't know what to tell you, lady.

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Speaker 3: You really don't have a problem. I tell my daughter

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Speaker 3: the truth. Actually I flew out here. We had discussed sex,

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Speaker 3: but we didn't discuss fetishes and role playing.

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Speaker 2: Now obviously, uh a big big boy over here.

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Speaker 3: Well, big boy wanted to put some straps on me

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Speaker 3: and have me swinging back and forth. And every time

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Speaker 3: I swung into him, you knew what was gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Listen, leave your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter at Instagram,

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Speaker 1: at Steve Barb them and child especially.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think the swing was big enough.

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Speaker 1: Hondie Man, you're listening to the Hardy Morning Show.

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