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Speaker 1: All right, it is time now for today's Strawberry Letter,

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Speaker 1: right here, right now, and never know. It could be

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Speaker 1: yours could be you never know. Buckle up and hold

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Speaker 1: on tight. We guided foil you here. It is the

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letter subject he Can't out cheat Me. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend and I are forty four years old and

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Speaker 1: we have been together for years. I lost count on

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Speaker 1: how long we've actually been a couple because we were

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Speaker 1: roommates first, then we started fooling around. Then we stopped

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Speaker 1: seeing other people since we were living together, we became

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Speaker 1: a couple after our family and friends considered us a couple.

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Speaker 1: I started playing the role of wifey and made sure

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Speaker 1: everything was taken care of in the house. Little did

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Speaker 1: I know he was telling people that we were roommates

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Speaker 1: and we hadn't had sex and months. That's when my

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Speaker 1: attitude changed and I asked him to move out. He

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Speaker 1: denied ever saying that, and I knew he was lying.

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Speaker 1: I started seeing one of my old boyfriends and started

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Speaker 1: to stay at his house. Sometimes, my roommate would stay

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Speaker 1: away all weekend and come home and sleep all day.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, I saw his email and text messages and

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Speaker 1: he was telling women how much he enjoyed them sexually.

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Speaker 1: I decided to turn up the heat on him and

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Speaker 1: beat him at his own game. I slept with his

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Speaker 1: of us. His boss didn't care about being messy because

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Speaker 1: he knew my roommate was a big time cheater. My boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: who said he's just my roommate, came home and we

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Speaker 1: got into a really bad argument, and he admitted to

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Speaker 1: cheating on me for years. I told him he can't

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Speaker 1: out cheat me, and I told him about my ex boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: In addition to his boss, those two people that I

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Speaker 1: mess with. He knows how I feel about my ex.

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Speaker 1: He cried and begged me to stop cheating and swore

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Speaker 1: he'd stopped cheating too. I'm glad he realized what he'd lose,

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Speaker 1: but it's too late or is it? Is there a

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Speaker 1: way to stay together and fix this mess? Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: see about that first. I'm gonna say it's not you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not normal what we do as women. This is

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Speaker 1: not normally what we do as women. We don't make

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Speaker 1: it into a competition or a game of who can

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Speaker 1: cheat on who the most, or who can cheat on

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Speaker 1: who the best. We don't normally do that because while

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Speaker 1: women may take a man back, you know, we might

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Speaker 1: more women take men back after they cheat than men

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Speaker 1: take women back. Okay, those numbers are pretty low for

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Speaker 1: men taking women back after they knowingly been cheated on. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but you did it, and you told your man, You

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Speaker 1: even bragged about it, you know, you being the better

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Speaker 1: or cheater and who you cheat it with. Now you

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Speaker 1: want to know, is there any hope for you too? Well,

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Speaker 1: let me just say this again. I believe it's never

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Speaker 1: too late for anything. But really that's up to you guys.

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Speaker 1: You guys, only you guys can answer that question, because

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Speaker 1: fixing it is going to involve the TE word, and

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Speaker 1: the T word is trust in this situation, and it

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Speaker 1: all boils down to trust. I mean, after all that's

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Speaker 1: that it won't happen again? He asked you not to cheat,

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Speaker 1: He said he wasn't going to cheat. Well, can you

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Speaker 1: guys hold to that? That's the question. You have to

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Speaker 1: rebuild that trust. If you two really want that, you

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Speaker 1: got to start working on your relationship. And you guys

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Speaker 1: got to start from scratch, because there was never any

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Speaker 1: respect or any trust, it seems from you guys to

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Speaker 1: begin with. You have to do what you can. You

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Speaker 1: got to make each other feel secure. If you want

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Speaker 1: to make this thing work. You know, it's just how

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Speaker 1: much are you guys willing to do. You might want

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Speaker 1: to go to counseling. I mean that's going to help

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Speaker 1: if you guys are to go. And it also means

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Speaker 1: no sexting with other females, no guys, definitely no seeing

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Speaker 1: other people. So again, if you buck guys both want it,

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Speaker 1: and you say you do. Since he stopped crying and

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Speaker 1: begging and stuff, you gotta do the work because right now,

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Speaker 1: this raggedy relationship of yours is hanging on by a thread. Steve,

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Speaker 1: this letter right here is shocking. He can't out cheat me.

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Speaker 1: Then after she writes this whole letter. Here's the line

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Speaker 1: that they've given to me and Shirley. Here's the mandate.

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Speaker 1: Is there a way to stay together and fix this mess?

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Speaker 1: After all? She wrote, here's the question for me and Shirley.

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Speaker 1: Shirley has an approach to it, a very logical approach.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like being logical today. Here's an answer

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Speaker 1: and fix this mess? The answer is hell? Now this

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Speaker 1: is over? You know, you know, I used to spend

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Speaker 1: I've discovered that a lot of people write me in

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Speaker 1: Sherley with some helpless situations. It's nothing we could do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have took this to the Lord. We ain't

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Speaker 1: got the qualification the Lord. Because what am I supposed

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Speaker 1: to do with this? Hell? Because okay, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you what I read when I read the letter? Did

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Speaker 1: Steven Sherley my boyfriend and I forty four years old

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Speaker 1: and we have been together for years? Okay, y'all ain't married,

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Speaker 1: and y'all boyfriend and girlfriend at forty four, y'all too

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Speaker 1: old for this. Here's the key to this letter. I

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Speaker 1: lost count of how long we've actually been a couple

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Speaker 1: because we were roommates first, then we started fooling around.

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Speaker 1: Then we stopped seeing other people. Since we were living together,

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Speaker 1: us a couple. What what? What? All I can say

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Speaker 1: is listen to me. When a woman says she don't

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Speaker 1: know how long we've actually been a couple. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something. When you lose count or when you

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Speaker 1: stop the count, it's because it don't count. Listen to

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Speaker 1: me again. If you lose the account of something or

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Speaker 1: you stop the count, it's because it don't count. Everybody

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Speaker 1: in this room know how long they've been with their partner. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: Hang on, Steve, whatever we got part two of your

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

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry Letters, subject he can't out cheat Me. We'll

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

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, Let's get back into today's Strawberry Let

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Speaker 1: let's recap the subject is he can't out cheat me?

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Speaker 1: So very quickly. Here's my recap. I just add went

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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the letter, and after she wrote

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Speaker 1: all this, she said it's their way to stay together

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Speaker 1: and fix this mess. My answer is hell, now, just

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Speaker 1: hell now. This is a done daughter. I can't help.

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Speaker 1: This is a not fixable. I'll tell you why. My

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Speaker 1: together for years. Who forty folk steal boyfriend girlfriend? I

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Speaker 1: told y'all this stops after college. You stop having boyfriend's

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Speaker 1: something else boyfriend girlfriend. Y'all too old for this. I

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Speaker 1: because we were roommates first, then we started fooling around.

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Speaker 1: Now let me first of all, let me help you

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Speaker 1: with a woman loses count in their relationship. You lose

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Speaker 1: count because it don't count. This is very true. Now

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Speaker 1: how long we've actually been together because we were roommates first.

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Speaker 1: Then we started fooling around. Then we stopped seeing other

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Speaker 1: after our family and friends considered us a couple. I

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Speaker 1: we hadn't had sex, and Moss, did you hear what

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Speaker 1: Then she started playing the role of wife. But then

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Speaker 1: that's when my attitude changed. Really well, this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be interesting, because what y'all in right now is a

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Speaker 1: complete mess with attitude you had. But then your attitude changed.

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Speaker 1: I asked him to move out. He did not ever

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Speaker 1: boyfriends and started to stay at his house sometimes. What

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Speaker 1: what did you just say? But then my roommate would

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Speaker 1: emails in text and he was telling women how much

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Speaker 1: She decided to turn up the heat on him and

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Speaker 1: beat him at his own game. She said, I slept

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Speaker 1: picture of us. What this letter is straight zy, This

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Speaker 1: is sheer madness. This is nuts. His boss didn't care

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Speaker 1: He admitted to cheating on me for years. I told

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Speaker 1: him he came out cheat me. I told him about

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Speaker 1: is sheer craziness. Man, You sleeping with people, He's sleeping

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Speaker 1: email else, y'all live together, y'all a couple, y'all ain't

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Speaker 1: You the lost count y'all foughty folk after all this

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Speaker 1: he created and cried and begged me to stop cheating.

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Speaker 1: It's what he stopped cheating too. I'm glad he realized

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Speaker 1: what he lose, but it's too late. He ain't lost

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Speaker 1: nothing for you, glad he realized what he lose. What

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Speaker 1: what back tator chips? Or is it? Is there a

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Speaker 1: way to stay together and fix this message? This whole

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Speaker 1: letter is filled with say what lady? You fix this? Man?

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Speaker 1: Why y'all together? Y'all don't be long together? You? Neither

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Speaker 1: one of you have any idea And in all of this,

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Speaker 1: in all of this, neither one of you said you

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Speaker 1: Neither one of you said you were hurt by the

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Speaker 1: This is this is nothing bad man, This, this could

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Speaker 1: one of the worst letters man. I mean, what was

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Speaker 1: he crying and doing? All the crying and begging for pH. No,

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Speaker 1: that's all that is. You don't cry and cut off women. Huh,

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Speaker 1: you don't cry and cut off women. You tried to

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Speaker 1: once she do, you ain't. It ain't even make you

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