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Speaker 1: B subject where do I be again? First of all,

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Speaker 1: Hello Steve, Shirley, Carla, and Tommy. I live in a

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Speaker 1: small southern town in Georgia. To say no more, I

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Speaker 1: after I moved there, I met a wonderful man who

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Speaker 1: near my old hometown. Every other weekend he comes down

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Speaker 1: to see me. I offered to come back home to

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have the privacy like we do here at my apartment. Well,

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Speaker 1: I am fine with that saves me from not paying

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Speaker 1: these high gas prices. L O L well to the

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Speaker 1: point code cracker. My best friend back home is getting

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Speaker 1: told her I was unable to make it to the

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Speaker 1: the weekend of the wedding was coming up, and I

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Speaker 1: began to feel guilty. I told my boss I needed

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Speaker 1: a couple of days off due to some issue back home.

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Speaker 1: While I was heading back home, I thought I would

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Speaker 1: for a couple of days for a wedding. Well, he

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Speaker 1: told me he was going to a wedding also, but

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Speaker 1: didn't have time to see me because the wedding was

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Speaker 1: out of town, which I was fine with. I got

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Speaker 1: the wedding and wished my best friend the best of

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Speaker 1: the ceremony, I couldn't see her new husband to be

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Speaker 1: all that well, so I decided to move up closer

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Speaker 1: where I saw an empty chair so I could see

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Speaker 1: the wedding and get a better look at the groom.

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Speaker 1: As I walked up to the chair, I noticed the

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Speaker 1: groom to be is my boyfriend I've been saying for

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Speaker 1: nine months. I left soon as I left, soon as

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Speaker 1: I saw him, which he didn't see me. Now my

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Speaker 1: best friend is married to this man I want to

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Speaker 1: at a relationship with. I broke it off with him,

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Speaker 1: but giving him a different reason why I couldn't see

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Speaker 1: him any longer. I want to tell my best friend

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Speaker 1: of five years about her husband and I, but my

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Speaker 1: best friend doesn't even know I'm gay? What should I do?

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Speaker 1: Because he doesn't deserve a wonder woman like my best friend?

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Speaker 1: Helped me out? Sincerely, my ex best friend's husband, now

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Speaker 1: my ex best friend's husband. Now wait, wait a minute, yeah, yeah, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, my best friend of five years about her husband.

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Speaker 1: But my best friend doesn't even know I'm gay? What

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Speaker 1: should I do because he doesn't deserve a wonder woman

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Speaker 1: like mom? So are you saying that the person that

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Speaker 1: wrote this letter is a guy? That's what I got

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Speaker 1: out of it. That's exactly what I got out of it, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, uh, dear my ex boyfriend's husband.

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Speaker 1: Now she she where he starts with? Where do I begin?

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Speaker 1: You know? I gotta say the same thing. Where do

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Speaker 1: I begin? I mean, I was fooled. I thought I

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Speaker 1: had this letter figured out until you know, you threw

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Speaker 1: the drama in the end up until that time, along

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Speaker 1: with everyone else, I'm sure I thought you were a

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Speaker 1: woman who was writing this letter. I I really really did.

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Speaker 1: But the line that says my best friend doesn't even

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Speaker 1: writing this letter. His best friend is a woman who

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Speaker 1: just got married to the man he was having an

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Speaker 1: affair with. This is five glasses, but that explains why

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Speaker 1: the best friend wasn't in the wedding. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: that she was a man, why wasn't she? And his

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Speaker 1: friends absolutely absolutely so. A man wrote the letter. He

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Speaker 1: had an affair with his best friends now husband, and

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Speaker 1: he wants to know should he tell his best friend

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Speaker 1: his lover's wife. Oh god, oh my goodness. After the

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Speaker 1: code crack, I'm gonna take different responses. All right, come on,

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Speaker 1: Steve with part two of your responses Today's Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Let's go um. The new groom is on the down low,

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Speaker 1: which is a very appropriate word because no matter how

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Speaker 1: you look at it, if you're on the down low,

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Speaker 1: even if you try to flip it, you low down.

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Speaker 1: M h. Either way you look at this, this situation

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Speaker 1: is ugly. See. I have no problem with being a

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Speaker 1: person being gay. If you're gonna be gay and be gay,

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Speaker 1: but just go be that though, Do not ruin somebody

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Speaker 1: else's life, you know, come on out with it. Be

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Speaker 1: proud of it, that's what you are. Didn't be proud

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Speaker 1: of it? Take your stand, this is your stand in life.

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Speaker 1: Who am out of Judge you know, I got my

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Speaker 1: own issues. I am not in the judge and people

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Speaker 1: business anymore. I wance upon a time I used to be.

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Speaker 1: But if that's your thing, and that's what floats your boat,

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Speaker 1: didn't you do your thing? You gotta work that out

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Speaker 1: with your creator. You gotta fix that out and your soul.

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Speaker 1: You'd ask your lifestyle. But if you're gonna have that

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Speaker 1: as your lifestyle, didn't have it. See the down low.

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Speaker 1: Its what stinks when you perpetrate into a woman that

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Speaker 1: you her man and all her man. Then you go

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Speaker 1: out and you take on some other man, but don't

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Speaker 1: tell her about it. Now you ruin her life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Now you're going down here every other weekend with this dude.

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Speaker 1: And once again, brother that wrote the letter, I ain't

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Speaker 1: got nothing against you. You're doing your thing. You live

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Speaker 1: your life. That's how you choose to go. That's your business.

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Speaker 1: My personal viewpoint of it is not important because it

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Speaker 1: ain't my life. So you just doing you. You've met

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Speaker 1: a man you deeply have feelings for, But this letter

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Speaker 1: is written from a different perspective. It kind of has

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Speaker 1: gay road on it. If you just read the letter

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Speaker 1: every other weekend, he comes down to see me. That

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Speaker 1: sounds like something something man would tell a woman. But

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Speaker 1: you offered to come back home to visit, but he

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Speaker 1: said not to bother because we wouldn't have the privacy

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Speaker 1: like we do here in my apartment. Yeah, no, you

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Speaker 1: can't have the same privacy, privacy cause the fiance got

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Speaker 1: a kid and she would keep coming in. Now, y'all

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Speaker 1: can't be all this all opinion. She got the key,

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Speaker 1: but just having an affair, you know. Well, I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying that's one of the reasons why you just can't

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Speaker 1: go back to that apartment. Well, I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 1: It saves me for paying those high gas prices. Laugh,

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Speaker 1: laugh out loud. This ain't funny. Nice little cute attempt

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Speaker 1: at a joke, but this ain't funny right now. Well

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Speaker 1: to the point, cold Cracker, my best friend back home

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Speaker 1: is getting married and I'm so happy for her. But

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Speaker 1: to the wedding due to work, which is lying to her. Well,

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Speaker 1: the reason you lie to her was because that weekend

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Speaker 1: that she was getting married was your weekend that he

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Speaker 1: come down every other weekend, So you just lying and

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Speaker 1: said you couldn't make it because you wanted to stay

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Speaker 1: j Then you decided to call homeboy tell him you're coming. Well,

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Speaker 1: guess what the reason he wasn't coming to Jacksonville that

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Speaker 1: weekend because he lied to you and said, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to a win. Well maybe we could hook up. We

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna have time called the way and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to out of town now. Now you just got to

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Speaker 1: me in line. And who lie better than me? And

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a man man or gay man.

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Speaker 1: Me and lie as well as anybody. I don't know

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Speaker 1: anyone that does. Thank you, but we have to go.

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Speaker 1: You can email or instagram us your thoughts on today's

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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letter at my Girls surely and tomorrow is the day,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow's to day. We're gonna start our

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Speaker 1: or Shirley Strawberreya, Okay, so please join me tomorrow. We

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Speaker 1: want to make a big splash, all right, And thank

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Speaker 1: you guys so far for loving the letter and uh

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Speaker 1: writing us. And keep those letters coming. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, keep those letters coming. Thank you. Guys. Gonna

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Speaker 1: be really good.