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Speaker 1: it is Strawberry Letter. Thank you nephew. Subject. It was

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Speaker 1: all recorded on her iPad. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a

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Speaker 1: thirty eight year old married woman. This is my second

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Speaker 1: marriage and my husband's first marriage. I have a twenty

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Speaker 1: one year old child and an eighteen year old child,

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Speaker 1: but I felt obligated to have a child with my

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Speaker 1: husband because he didn't have any kids. We've been married

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Speaker 1: four years and we have a three year old daughter.

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Speaker 1: He used to be my world, but now my children

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Speaker 1: are my world. After my daughter's iPad exposed my husband

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Speaker 1: as a cheater, it was caught on videos, so there's

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Speaker 1: no way he can make me believe what I heard

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Speaker 1: was not what I heard. My husband runs a tax

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Speaker 1: prep business and he does the payroll for his brother's business.

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Speaker 1: His office is down in our basement, so our daughter

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Speaker 1: stays home with him every day. It has saved money

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Speaker 1: on daycare, so we have a tutor come by two

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Speaker 1: days a week to do activities with our daughter on

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Speaker 1: her iPad. But most of the time my daughter is

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Speaker 1: in the basement making videos of herself, cooking, doing her

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Speaker 1: doll's hair, and trying to do TikTok dances. Last week,

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Speaker 1: in her sweet little way, and he winked at her.

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Speaker 1: Then he told whoever he was on the phone with

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Speaker 1: that he had to go and he'd see her At

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty. While the baby was taking a nap, he

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Speaker 1: was grinning from ear to ear. He also told the

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Speaker 1: person to bring her bonnet so she wouldn't sweat her

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Speaker 1: hair out like last time. That evening, my daughter wanted

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Speaker 1: to show me her video, but all I heard was

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Speaker 1: my husband talking to his side chick. The people closest

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Speaker 1: to me think we can get past this. So does

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Speaker 1: he can a cheater? Ever? Change? Do I owe him

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Speaker 1: a second chance? First of all, I got to say

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Speaker 1: this about your little three year old daughter. She's amazing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she's quite advanced with her technical skills and all that

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Speaker 1: filming herself, cooking during Odal's hair, doing TikTok dances. I

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Speaker 1: like that. But no, you don't owe your husband a

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Speaker 1: second chance. Why don't you owe him a second chance

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Speaker 1: because he's cheating on you and you have the receipts period,

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Speaker 1: And where's he going at twelve thirty when your daughter

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Speaker 1: her write? Can cheaters change? You ask? I believe people

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Speaker 1: can do whatever they put their minds to. The problem

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Speaker 1: is will he change? Can he control himself? Or does

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Speaker 1: he even want to stop cheating? Those are the questions.

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Speaker 1: And it's not a matter of him changing. It's not

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Speaker 1: even that he broke the trust you had in him.

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Speaker 1: So it's about you now. Do you want to give

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Speaker 1: him a second chance? Do you want to do that?

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Speaker 1: Will you ever be able to trust him again? You

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Speaker 1: don't want to be constantly worried about him cheating and

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Speaker 1: whatever else he's doing. He said, he believes you guys

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Speaker 1: What is he willing to do to make sure of that?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to give him another chance? Like I said,

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Speaker 1: will he stop cheating and do the hard work it's

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Speaker 1: going to take to fix this marriage? If it can

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Speaker 1: be fixed, how does he plan to make it up

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Speaker 1: to you? These are more of the questions that you

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Speaker 1: work this marriage out. I will caution you to be

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Speaker 1: careful though, because at this point I'm sure he's going

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Speaker 1: trust what he does, not what he says. Steve, he

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Speaker 2: Well, oh, let me just start by saying, damn dog. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I mean, just damn dog.

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Speaker 2: First of all, why are you talking in front of

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Speaker 2: your child, y'all? I mean, and how loud were you

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Speaker 2: talking that whatever your daughter was doing on the iPad

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Speaker 2: you could be heard in the background. None of this letter,

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Speaker 2: none of this information in the in the letter is

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Speaker 2: important about her being married before this.

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Speaker 1: His first marriage.

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Speaker 2: Uh, he never he never had a child, so you

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Speaker 2: felt obligated to have a baby. And now y'all got

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Speaker 2: It ain't even important that his husband runs a tax

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Speaker 2: and he does payroll for his brother's business. What do

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Speaker 2: that got to do with anything? All this information is

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Speaker 2: so irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the letter.

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Speaker 2: His office is down in our basement. Now this is

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Speaker 2: what becomes important. The office is in the basement, so

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Speaker 2: our daughter stays home with him every day. It has

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Speaker 2: saved money on daycare. So we have a too to

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Speaker 1: On her I pad.

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Speaker 2: You have what so you pay somebody to come by

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Speaker 2: the house two days a week, not to study, but

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Speaker 2: So I guess you're supporting the daughter.

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Speaker 1: It's probably educational stuff.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, we have a tutor come by two

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Speaker 2: days to do activities on our daughter's iPad. Yeah. For

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Speaker 2: making videos of herself cooking, doing her doll's hair, or

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Speaker 2: trying to do TikTok dance. At what the hell I

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Speaker 1: What I think it's educational.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, anyway, she was doing a cooking video and

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Speaker 2: my hunt was in the background on the phone. This

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Speaker 2: is where the letter gets good. This is all we

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Speaker 2: need to do, and after that, I'll tell you whatever.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll have part two of Steve's response coming

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Speaker 1: up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: Subject is it was all recorded on her iPad. We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into it right after this. You're listening Morning show.

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Speaker 1: All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject is it was all recorded on her iPad.

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Speaker 2: The first part of this letter is unimportant. She's been married,

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Speaker 2: Her husband has it. They've been married four years. She

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Speaker 2: got two kids that's grown eighteen twenty one. He wanted

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Speaker 2: a child, felt obligated. They got a three year old daughter.

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Speaker 2: He works from his basement. He do his brother's taxes.

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Speaker 2: The daughter stays home with them to save money on daycare,

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Speaker 2: and she do TikTok videos. And y'all got a two

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Speaker 2: to come by twice a week to do activities on TikTok.

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Speaker 2: They ain't got damn thing to do with this letter

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Speaker 2: except set us up. Your baby is always doing stuff

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Speaker 2: on TikTok. Now, last week she was doing a cooking video.

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Speaker 2: She's three years old. Yes, y'all gonna set the house

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Speaker 2: on fire. And my husband was in the background on

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Speaker 2: the phone. My daughter shshed him in her sweet little way,

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Speaker 2: and he winked at her. Oh, some daddy daughter time.

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Speaker 2: Then he told whoever was on the phone with that

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Speaker 2: he had to go and he would see her at

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Speaker 2: twelve thirty. Now, whoever he was on the phone with,

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Speaker 2: you don't know. So we got a small out here,

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Speaker 2: We got a loop, a chance to lie, you said,

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Speaker 2: he told her. But you don't know it was her

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Speaker 2: because all he said was I'll see you at twelve

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Speaker 2: thirty while the baby is taking a nap. It could

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Speaker 2: have been a business meeting, it could have been anything.

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Speaker 2: We had it opening. But now your ass stayed on

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Speaker 2: the phone and gave the incriminating evidence.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he was grinning here the end.

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Speaker 2: Well, if I'm gonna make some money, I'm grinning too.

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Speaker 2: He also told the person to bring your bonnet so

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Speaker 2: you donna sweat your hair out like last time. What

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Speaker 2: is you saying this for? In front of the damn baby.

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Speaker 2: That evening, my daughter wanted to show me her video.

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Speaker 2: All I heard was my husband talking to his side chick.

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Speaker 2: Now it wasn't a side chick until he's saying, bring

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Speaker 2: your bonnet so you don't sweat your hair out come

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Speaker 2: on like last time. God, this is the information that

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Speaker 2: is incriminating and the part that we must deal with immediately.

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Speaker 1: I have a solution. No way, Yes, no way, Steve.

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Speaker 2: That evening, my daughter wanted to show me the video

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Speaker 2: and I heard my husband talking to his what you say,

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Speaker 2: this side chick. The people closest to me think we

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Speaker 2: can work past this, and so does he cound of cheetah?

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Speaker 2: Ever change? Do I owe him a second chance? Now,

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Speaker 2: First of all, you left out a lot of information

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Speaker 2: what he said about the phone call, how he explained it, everything.

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Speaker 2: But obviously he must have told her that it was

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Speaker 2: a chicken. Surely's ridiculous question was where is he going

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Speaker 2: at twelve thirty? He ain't going nowhere. He leaving that

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Speaker 2: baby at home about himself, it's twelve thirty. When the

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Speaker 2: baby take a nap, he don't leave the house. She

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Speaker 2: need to bring that bonnet so she don't swear her

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Speaker 2: going nowhere. His dumb ass is at the house. What

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Speaker 2: he should have said was that was not a woman

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Speaker 2: on the phone. I did say, come over at twelve

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Speaker 2: the soner. It was my brother, and my brother go

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Speaker 2: to the soner and I told him to bring his

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Speaker 1: Uh uh No, nobody's buying that. Well, what else she got?

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Speaker 1: What else she got?

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Speaker 2: But she at least he would have had it because

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Speaker 2: you didn't know who he was talking to when he

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Speaker 2: said come by a twelve while baby sleep. The problem

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Speaker 2: he had was he told her to bring a bonnet

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Speaker 2: so she wouldn't sweat her hairt man, all we got

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Speaker 2: to do is cover this bonnet and sweating hair. And

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Speaker 2: that would be a man who has a James Brown

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Speaker 2: parent that he was perm in his hair. And that's

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Speaker 2: all it got.

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Speaker 1: All you got gonna work.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, not absolutely, but you need to have a shadow

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Speaker 2: of doubt because in Nigeria of twelve, you just need.

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Speaker 3: One reasonable You just need one for reasonable doubt is

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Speaker 3: the key word reasonable That didn't work. Yeah, and everybody

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Speaker 3: people closer. You think y'all could get past that. And

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Speaker 3: so does he kenne Cheetah ever changed? She just changed

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Speaker 3: all the time. Do I owe him a second chance?

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Speaker 3: I don't know that you owe him anything. It's just

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Speaker 3: a matter of do you want to? But you left

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Speaker 3: a lot of information out of this. I'm assuming you're

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Speaker 3: writing because you want to work it out. If you

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Speaker 3: going boom boom boom, boom boom. But you have some

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Speaker 3: doubts and you want to try to work it out

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Speaker 3: with this man because he used to be your world.

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Speaker 1: She was thinking in her head that it could be

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Speaker 1: the brother with the perm.

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Speaker 2: No, she's not thinking that at all. Because you are

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Speaker 2: smart enough to interject that doubt early on, it's too

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Speaker 1: He's already ever, there's no doubt he did it.

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Speaker 2: He's already admitted it.

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Speaker 1: Charley.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you listen sometime? Oh we just go with

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Speaker 2: your home wrecking advice.

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Speaker 1: And you're just mad because he got caught, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I have a life for it.

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