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Speaker 1: Here it is Strawberry letter. Here we go. Subject pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Hey check. Oh all right, good morning, morning show family.

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Speaker 1: I am a twenty eight year old working pregnant woman. Well,

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Speaker 1: here is my problem. I began dating a friend of

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Speaker 1: Being the kind and giving soul that I am, I

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Speaker 1: offered my help. We both were going through a breakup

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Speaker 1: stage as well. Long story short, I let him move

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Speaker 1: in with me. He is an artist and he had

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Speaker 1: to rebuild his tool and supply arsenal. So as he

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Speaker 1: did not he did that. I never asked him to

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Speaker 1: chip in for anything. So as he did that, I

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Speaker 1: actually glad to help. So several months went by and

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Speaker 1: he had little to no money coming in and I

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Speaker 1: me financially and mental. I asked him about getting a

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Speaker 1: job and his reply was that he is not the

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Speaker 1: type to work for someone making chump change when he

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Speaker 1: can sell his designs making hundreds a day. Okay, sounds good,

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Speaker 1: but you're not. But you're not, so what's next? Fast

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Speaker 1: forward a few months and now I'm pregnant. I am

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Speaker 1: very happy to be blessed with my daughter, but I

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Speaker 1: will be provided for. I make a decent living at

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Speaker 1: my job, pay all of my own bills, and very

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Speaker 1: rarely ask for anything, well aside from asking him to

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Speaker 1: had to move from my one bedroom to a two bedroom,

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Speaker 1: and he's expecting me to ask him to stay, but

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Speaker 1: I told him, unless he can pay all the utilities consistently,

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Speaker 1: then no. Well that was a month ago, and if

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Speaker 1: dark with no water. We've gone to spiritual counseling where

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Speaker 1: plans to take care of us. Now they are very

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Speaker 1: unhappy with him, and I've tried to communicate my concerns

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Speaker 1: with him, but nothing is working. Don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: emotionally he is every woman's dream, but he is not

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Speaker 1: financially supportive. And this is where my confusion lies, on

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Speaker 1: my priorities out of order, because I put money a

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Speaker 1: of emotion. I am concerned about the future and provision

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Speaker 1: of my child, not me or him or anything else.

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Speaker 1: Right now. She's my top priority. But I need help,

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Speaker 1: and he's putting pride before blood. Is this right stuck

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Speaker 1: between a rock and a hard place. You're stuck between

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Speaker 1: a rock and a hard place. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: be stuck. You know now that you have identified the problem,

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Speaker 1: and it is him. You can change. This man who

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Speaker 1: is now your baby's daddy is a loser. Okay. Any

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Speaker 1: man who thinks he thinks like he does about getting

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Speaker 1: a job is just trifling um, you know. And if

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Speaker 1: you keep make excuses for him and letting him, this

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Speaker 1: end up being trifling to okay, your whole life everything

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Speaker 1: you know. You're really really wrong about him. You say

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Speaker 1: he is emotionally every woman's dream, He's not available to

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Speaker 1: you emotionally, financially or anything else. You know, please, he's

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Speaker 1: the selfishness in this guy? I say, right now, tell

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Speaker 1: else you'll just be taking care of two babies. That's it,

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Speaker 1: go to part two of your response to today's Strawberry Letter,

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Speaker 1: pregnant paycheck, Good morning, Morning show family. I'm a twenty

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Speaker 1: I began dating a friend of three years about a

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Speaker 1: me to ask him to stay, but I told him,

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Speaker 1: Well that was a month ago, and if I were

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Speaker 1: But I need help and he's putting pride before blood.

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Speaker 1: Is this right? Stuck between the rock and hearth? First

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Speaker 1: of all, you're not stocking. I agree with Shirley, you

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Speaker 1: A woman marries for two reasons, love and security. To

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Speaker 1: confide in, and dream and be all with. That's security

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Speaker 1: Why because you're dating a little artist boy. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: go over really what he lost doing this tragedy. What happened?

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Speaker 1: A strong wind came by and blew his easel and

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Speaker 1: paint set off the porch. What tragedy? A fire broke

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Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what tragedy happened in this

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Speaker 1: He's an artist and had to rebuild his tool and supply. Awesome,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go over that. We got to get

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need a couple of cloths. We're gonna need

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Speaker 1: some passtails. We're gonna need some paint thin them. How

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Speaker 1: long will it take for this boy to build back

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Speaker 1: his awesome He is a painter now he ain't working,

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Speaker 1: got with this food right here? Who ain't really you're

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Speaker 1: saying the letter emotionally, he's every woman's dream. You are

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Speaker 1: But that's like you said, But you're not so horsenecks.

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Speaker 1: We're giving some suggestions on paint a sign, will work

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Speaker 1: Use your skill? Why don't you brushstroke you a job,

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Speaker 1: produce an income. Why don't you paint bill boards? Climb

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Speaker 1: That'd be a good job. It's a lot of weight.

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Speaker 1: But right now, help paint houses. It's a lot of

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