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Speaker 1: reading your letter live on the air. It's like we're

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Speaker 1: gonna read this one right here, right now. That's for you, Jay,

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Speaker 1: Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for

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Speaker 1: you here. It is a Strawberry Letter subject. He's mine sometimes,

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Speaker 1: but he belongs to her. Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been

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Speaker 1: friends with a great guy for three years and we

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Speaker 1: have become the best of friends with the best sexual chemistry.

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Speaker 1: Our sex is off the chain. He dates other women,

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Speaker 1: but he's always said that he wouldn't get in a

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Speaker 1: relationship without letting me meet the female and giving him

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Speaker 1: my blessing. We never talked about us being in a relationship,

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Speaker 1: so I gave up hope. Early on, he found out

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Speaker 1: I was dating a guy once and he got very

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Speaker 1: upset and wouldn't answer my calls for a whole week.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to mess up our friendship, so I

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Speaker 1: broke up with the guy. A few days later, he

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Speaker 1: called me and said he really needed to talk to me.

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Speaker 1: He told me that he's met someone and it feels

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Speaker 1: right like she might be the one for him. My

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Speaker 1: heart sank and my feelings came out of nowhere. Then

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Speaker 1: I realized that I loved this man. Instead of telling

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Speaker 1: him I was hurt, I told him that I supported

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Speaker 1: him and couldn't wait to meet her. Later that evening,

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Speaker 1: the last time we're intimate. We were intimate. I told

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Speaker 1: him that we couldn't have sex anymore, and he agreed

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Speaker 1: that it would be awkward for me whenever his girlfriend

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Speaker 1: is around. Fast forward to a week ago. I met

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Speaker 1: his new girlfriend at his house. She's cute and seems

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Speaker 1: like she's very sweet. She helped him cook dinner, and

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Speaker 1: whenever she wasn't looking, he rubbed on my butt or

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Speaker 1: squeezed my breasts. He tasted me that he couldn't wait

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Speaker 1: to taste me. As soon as his girlfriend left, we

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Speaker 1: had sex. We are addicted to each other sexually, he said,

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Speaker 1: even though he's with her, his body will always crave mine.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be the number two woman in

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Speaker 1: his life, but I need him? How can I break

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Speaker 1: the cycle with him? Please help? He's never yours anytime

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Speaker 1: and never has been period. Okay, never has been. This

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Speaker 1: letter is just very sad to me. It's very sad

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Speaker 1: and it's pitiful. I mean, I'm sorry that you can't

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Speaker 1: see that you're being used and this has nothing to

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Speaker 1: with him. You are just allowing this man to have

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Speaker 1: his way with you whenever and wherever he wants, while he,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, can dump you when he gets

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Speaker 1: a new woman in his life. Then he expects you

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Speaker 1: to fall back, which you do all under the guise

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Speaker 1: of a so called friendship. Who wants a friend like this?

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, why can't you do the same?

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Speaker 1: He got mad? Remember when you had a man and

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Speaker 1: didn't talk to you for a whole week. You broke

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Speaker 1: up with someone who could have treated you way better

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Speaker 1: than this guy because of him. I mean, you're just

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Speaker 1: a sex toy at this point, and you're available at

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Speaker 1: his back and call. That's not cool. He's using you.

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Speaker 1: This is not love, It is lust, and surely you

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Speaker 1: want better for yourself, I say, cut him off. Now,

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Speaker 1: how do you break this cycle with him? You asked,

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Speaker 1: Stop answering his call, stop letting him touch you. Stop.

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Speaker 1: You know this is your body. He's touching you so inappropriately.

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Speaker 1: And most of all, get yourself some new friends, Okay,

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Speaker 1: some real friends, so you can see the difference in

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Speaker 1: real friends and what this guy is offering. You steve

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Speaker 1: everything that Shirley just said, it's one thousand percent truth.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all I can tell you. But you

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Speaker 1: what what? What do you want me to say? Shirley

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Speaker 1: told you everything that you needed to hear. I really

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Speaker 1: I can't even add anything except the only thing I

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Speaker 1: can add is what's wrong with you? How you don't

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Speaker 1: see what he's doing? First of all, from the get goal,

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Speaker 1: everything you need to know. He dates other women, but

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Speaker 1: he's always said that he wouldn't get in a relationship

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Speaker 1: without letting me meet the female and giving him my blessing.

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Speaker 1: What so that made him cool? He said he no

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Speaker 1: getting a relationship with another female without letting me meet

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Speaker 1: her and giving her a blessing? What you thank you? Finn?

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Speaker 1: To say? To stop him from seeing this girl? Girl?

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Speaker 1: That's game. He got you. All he's doing you is

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Speaker 1: making you think that your second, third, fourth, or fifth

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Speaker 1: position that you hold has some type of voting rights

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Speaker 1: I ever get into a relationship, girl, how he in

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Speaker 1: a relationship? Now? We never talked about us being a relationship,

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Speaker 1: so I gave up hope early on. So you all

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Speaker 1: never discussed y'all being an item, so he never counted

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Speaker 1: You got played. You saw the dating the guy once

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Speaker 1: he got upsetting with answering your calls for a week.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to mess up our friendship, boy, so

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Speaker 1: I broke up with the guy. Really. Then a few

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Speaker 1: days later he called me and said he really needed

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Speaker 1: one for him. Hey, then guess what happened to you?

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Speaker 1: Your heart sank and your feelings came out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Then I realized I loved this man. Oh God, you

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Speaker 1: stupid lady. Come on out, yeah, come on? Really all this?

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Speaker 1: And then instead of telling him I was hurt, guess

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Speaker 1: what you did? I told him that I supported him

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Speaker 1: and couldn't wait to meet help when we come back

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Speaker 1: lord him. Hold on, Steve, we'll be back at twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after be our subject. He's mine sometimes, but

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Speaker 1: he belongs to her. Part two of Steve's response right

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Speaker 1: after this. You're listening, all right? Come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's Strawberry Letters subject. He's mine some times, but

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Speaker 1: he belongs to her. The title is wrong. You ain't

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Speaker 1: got nothing right when dating this man is your friend.

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Speaker 1: He dates other women. Y'all never discussed being in a relationship.

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Speaker 1: He told you, though, that you are important to him

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Speaker 1: and that if he ever starts dating before he gets

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Speaker 1: and get his blessing. This is all set up. It

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Speaker 1: ain't nothing but to set up games. This man that

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Speaker 1: poked you to see exactly how far he could go

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Speaker 1: with you. He didn't set you up to see how

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Speaker 1: all the tests. You even started dating the guy. He

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Speaker 1: Then what he did call you, He told you he'd

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Speaker 1: have met somebody. He think you feel right now, you'dn't

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Speaker 1: Shirley said. But you know already said y'all ain't got

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Speaker 1: no shot in no relationship. You said that at the top,

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Speaker 1: Now this is stupid. It don't make no sense. You

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Speaker 1: just said y'all had no shot of a relationship. He

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Speaker 1: date other women. He told you if he finds somebody,

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Speaker 1: if it feel right, he'll let you know he finds somebody.

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Speaker 1: I told you to feel right, and he wants you

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Speaker 1: to meet him. Your heart sank. But instead of telling

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Speaker 1: him you supported him and couldn't wait to meet her.

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Speaker 1: What you want to meet her? Fault? After that evening

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Speaker 1: he came over. We had some most sex. So wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I can tell her that I got somebody else,

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Speaker 1: that it feel right, and I'm going to go with her.

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Speaker 1: But I can still come over and have sex. He

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Speaker 1: trying everything with you, you passing all the tests. He

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Speaker 1: can get away with anything with you. I cried after

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Speaker 1: we had sex because I had decided that it would

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Speaker 1: be the last time we're into I bet it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: I told him that we couldn't have sex anymore, and

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Speaker 1: he agreed it'd be awkward for me after his girlfriend

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Speaker 1: said this, he just is. Can't now you you'd have

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Speaker 1: met his girlfriend in his house. She was cute. It

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Speaker 1: seems like she's very sweet. She helped him cook dinner,

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Speaker 1: and whenever she wasn't looking, he rubbed my butt or

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Speaker 1: his real relationship with this other woman, which ain't really

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Speaker 1: real relationship either, but I got game. He texts me

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Speaker 1: that he couldn't wait to taste me as soon as

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Speaker 1: his girlfriend left. We had sex. You just crying another night.

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Speaker 1: You just said it because it was the last time

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Speaker 1: One thing you need to do in this letter. You

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Speaker 1: need to quit cry every time we are addicted to

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Speaker 1: each other sexually, he said, even though he's with her,

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Speaker 1: his body will always crave mine. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: need him. How can I break this cycle with him?

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Speaker 1: Please help? You don't want to be the number two woman.

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Speaker 1: You said he date other women. You ain't number two.

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Speaker 1: You one of many, and but you his favorite because

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Speaker 1: he can get away with anything with you. Listen to me.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't told all this to the other girls. And

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Speaker 1: you know how I know because that girl came over.

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Speaker 1: That's his girlfriend, thinking y'all just friends, and while she

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Speaker 1: helping him cook, she had no idea he's screwing you,

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Speaker 1: feeling your breast and squeezing your booty. Why she ain't

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Speaker 1: looking at cooking. If he told that to everybody, he

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Speaker 1: would have told you in front of Hull. Hey, this

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Speaker 1: my side piece, this one an other women, I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: but he ain't told that to her. You're the only

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Speaker 1: one he telling it too. You're the only one falling

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Speaker 1: for the oky dog. How come he didn't introduce you

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Speaker 1: to his new girlfriend as his other woman? Why because

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Speaker 1: he can't get her to be his girlfriend if he

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Speaker 1: if she find out he got you. You the only

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Speaker 1: one going along with this? How do you stop? Stop

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Speaker 1: stop being stuck on stupid? You already let one good

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Speaker 1: hanging on to mister rong. She struckled Tommy, you're not helping.

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Speaker 1: But who is he trying to help? So you gotta

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Speaker 1: understand when he talked that, right, who is somebody is

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Speaker 1: stuck in stupid and I can't get him out? Why

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Speaker 1: don't I capitalize on the stake because you do her

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Speaker 1: that's immaterial. Tell me that means nothing, all right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she just needs to get woke. Man, Come on, girl,

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Speaker 1: that's why I s this is just beautiful. Quick cry

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Speaker 1: now you want to well, I don't just I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be making love and you crying? That kills

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