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Speaker 1: just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's that time. It's time

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Speaker 1: for the Strawberry Letter with my good friends. Shirley straw Berry.

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Speaker 1: Thank you my good friend. Junior subject my best friend

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Speaker 1: is not who I thought she was, Dear Stephen Sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty nine year old divorced man, and I'm

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Speaker 1: the head coach of a high school girls basketball team.

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Speaker 1: My female best friend works with me as my assistant coach.

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Speaker 1: We met seven years ago and bonded over our love

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Speaker 1: of basketball. She's a single mom and a straight up

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Speaker 1: tom boy. She wears sweatshirts and sneakers all the time,

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Speaker 1: no makeup, and her long hair is always up in

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Speaker 1: a ponytail. I joke with her about being more feminine,

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Speaker 1: her child's father broke her heart. She hasn't seen him

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Speaker 1: in over two years, so I encouraged her to invite

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Speaker 1: him to their son's birthday party because the boy needs

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Speaker 1: and then she started stressing out about him coming. I

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Speaker 1: told her that she should look like a million bucks

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Speaker 1: missed out on. I begged her to fix herself up

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Speaker 1: before she saw her ex. On the day of the party,

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Speaker 1: I got there early for moral support so she wouldn't

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Speaker 1: freak out. When I walked in, I couldn't believe how

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Speaker 1: my best friend had transformed herself. She had on a

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Speaker 1: one piece catsuit type of outfit with sandals, and her

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Speaker 1: toes were polished. Her hair was down and flowing past

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Speaker 1: her shoulders, and she had on makeup and lashes. I

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Speaker 1: saw abs, but I saw abs ass and breasts. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: that she had been hiding for years. My whole outlook

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Speaker 1: has changed and I want her. She's back to the

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Speaker 1: sweatsuits every day. But since I know what's underneath there,

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Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking about it. I want to approach her,

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Speaker 1: but I'm worried she may not want me. Should I

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Speaker 1: risk it all and shoot my shot? Yes? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: risk it all because no risk, no reward. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can't be scared to go for it. You just can't.

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Speaker 1: What has fear ever gotten you? Anyway? If she turns

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Speaker 1: you down, she turns you down, Well, what if what

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Speaker 1: if you shoot your shot and she takes you up

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Speaker 1: on it? Don't you like the idea of that? What if?

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Speaker 1: I mean absolutely that could happen. You know that, right.

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Speaker 1: That's why you have to take the risk, because it

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Speaker 1: could go in your favor and you could get your reward,

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Speaker 1: and your reward would be her. We don't know about

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Speaker 1: what happened between her ex and her at the party,

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Speaker 1: but after two years there's probably nothing going on there anyway.

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Speaker 1: So you said she's back in her sweats now, So

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Speaker 1: no time like the present ask her out, ask her

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Speaker 1: there's not much you can do, you know now during

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Speaker 1: whatever if she accepts it or declines it. Just trying

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Speaker 1: not to make it awkward at work. Okay, that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about, because that'll be a whole nother situation.

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Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, I say, go for it, no risk it,

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Speaker 1: no biscuit, all right, Steve, let's go. My best friend

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Speaker 1: is not who I thought she was. Who you thought

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Speaker 1: Now let's stop right there. This says that you're a

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Speaker 1: into Sun's life. Now, you didn't say if he showed

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Speaker 1: Then she started tripping. You told her that she all

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Speaker 1: On the day of the party. You got there early

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Speaker 1: piece cat suit type of outfit. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you didn't know how to describe it. Which sandals and

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Speaker 1: her toes was polished, Her hair was down passing shoulder.

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Speaker 1: She had on makeup and lashes. You saw alms asstars

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Speaker 1: else to the seed. That's everything alps, ass, fast and brass.

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Speaker 1: She'd been hiding it for years. Dog hold on there,

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Speaker 1: wrote this reaction she getting from Unico. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: subject my best friend is not who I thought she was.

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

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Speaker 1: Strawberry letter. The sub jack my best friend quickly, Yes,

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Speaker 1: thirty nine divorced. Dude. His best friend is a woman

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Speaker 1: that shared a love of basketball. She's an assistant coach.

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Speaker 1: She's a tomboy, he says, straight up to sweats and

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Speaker 1: You teasing, and why don't she be more feminine? She

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Speaker 1: to swave Dayton because her child daddy broke her heart,

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Speaker 1: so she don't want to be food around them. You

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Speaker 1: told her to invite their son's father to the birthday party,

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Speaker 1: then said when you when he come now, you need

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Speaker 1: to look like a million buck. So when he sees

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Speaker 1: You couldn't believe how your best friend had transformed us him. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is what she did, y'all. She had on a

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Speaker 1: the fashion, he don't know what to call. It was

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Speaker 1: she had makeup on that lashes, he said. I saw albs, figs,

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Speaker 1: But since I know what's underneath there, I can't stop

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Speaker 1: got to stop. Here's the line that we get into.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna direct my whole response. I'm worried she may

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Speaker 1: not want me. Now let's go over or wrong. I

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Speaker 1: can that you saw what was wrong with her, square suit, sneakers, ponytails.

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Speaker 1: You told her to look like a million bucks all

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Speaker 1: the time, Pam working with it in your words, alms

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Speaker 1: ass thousand breads. Yes, live tig of the old man.

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Speaker 1: You want to approach her, but I'm worried she may

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Speaker 1: not want me. So fat boy, let me ask you something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't date that, But he wearied she might not want him.

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Speaker 1: She then went from a frumpet time boy to this

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Speaker 1: thing can happen is you wear it. She don't want

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Speaker 1: you cause of how you look. Are you wear it?

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Speaker 1: Cause she don't want you cause of how the boyfriend

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Speaker 1: look when he showed up six fold but banging, looking

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Speaker 1: like Chard Barkley came in here looking like that man,

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Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you, bro, I don't know

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you ain't got yourself together but

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Speaker 1: in here playing she got that, little boy, don't go

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Speaker 1: in here playing with your sister. If all you want

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Speaker 1: is something to play with, go somewhere else, Go down

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Speaker 1: to the Satin Dog, the garlic pony. What is that?

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Speaker 1: He's strip club? The doll house, Spenderella see it? The SAMs.

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Speaker 1: That's a strip club, Gentlemen's club. Fried broccoli and chicken.

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Speaker 1: Way ain't joint? I know, Hi, I'm stuck on I'm

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Speaker 1: stuck on her ex looking like Charles Barley, I mean, no,

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Speaker 1: him looking like Charles Brot. Yeah. So now, bro, if

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Speaker 1: I risk it all and shoot my shot? I would,

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Speaker 1: most definitely I would, But I would be very very

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Speaker 1: can't mess it up. You're right because they still have

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Speaker 1: but you need to start eating better. I'm gonna just

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Speaker 1: tell you it's something wrong with him though. It's something wrong, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he worried she ain't gonna him. Yeah. Now, Dwayne

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