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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: M Buckle up and hold up tight. We got a

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Speaker 1: four year here. It is Strawberry Letter. All right, thank you. Subject,

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Speaker 1: Just tell me the truth. Dear Stephen Shirley, I have

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Speaker 1: been married for two years to a man that is

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Speaker 1: twenty four years older than I am. I was his

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Speaker 1: and he got divorced to be with me. After we

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Speaker 1: got married, things changed. I had to accept that my

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Speaker 1: husband was not going to be monogamous, partly because he

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Speaker 1: was having sex with me while he was married. I

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Speaker 1: never signed up or agreed to an open marriage, but

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Speaker 1: I'm wise enough to know that he needs more than

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Speaker 1: one woman to make him feel like a king. I

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Speaker 1: won't say that I'm miserable with him, because we've had

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun and we traveled to exotic places often.

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Speaker 1: I just wish he'd tell me the truth about what

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Speaker 1: he is doing. On the side, I have to be

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Speaker 1: the most reasonable wife on the planet, and I don't

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Speaker 1: check his phone or his social media accounts. I can

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Speaker 1: get in his car and smell perfume on the passenger

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Speaker 1: loves me because he shows me over his wife. I

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Speaker 1: thought he would continue to be open and honest once

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Speaker 1: we got married, but he lies about simple things like

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Speaker 1: where he had lunch. I will see a receipt that

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Speaker 1: says otherwise. He will lie about which one of his

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Speaker 1: male friends he was with. He lies about taking a shower,

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Speaker 1: getting a pedicure, getting a haircut. He's just a liar.

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Speaker 1: I got a call recently from his barber saying he

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Speaker 1: left his credit card, and I called my husband and

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Speaker 1: was sitting in the barber chair. I hung up on

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Speaker 1: him and canceled a card so no one could use it.

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Speaker 1: I've told him repeatedly that he does not have to

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Speaker 1: lie to me because I'm not going anywhere. How is

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Speaker 1: he going to keep this up as he gets older?

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Speaker 1: Am I setting myself up for a lot of heartache

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Speaker 1: and headaches with this man. Please advise. Okay, my question

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Speaker 1: to you is what do you want from us? Because,

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Speaker 1: in case you haven't heard this before, payback is a

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Speaker 1: bee and that's what's happening here. You're being paid back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, were you cheated with him on her? So

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Speaker 1: look what's happening now? So yes, to answer your question,

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Speaker 1: you are in store for a lot of heartaches and

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Speaker 1: headaches with this man. It's already happening. You were cheating

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Speaker 1: with this woman's husband, and he divorced her to marry you.

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Speaker 1: Now you're concerned he's cheating on you and he's lying

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Speaker 1: to you. You'recerned about that. What he's doing, what he does,

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Speaker 1: and he was doing it before you with you and

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Speaker 1: now during you excuse me, did you think he was

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Speaker 1: gonna change when he married you? You thought that? No,

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Speaker 1: m you married what He is a liar. You said

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Speaker 1: it in the letter. He is a liar, a liar,

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Speaker 1: and a cheater. This time he's just cheating on you

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Speaker 1: and not with you. Okay, The question is what are

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Speaker 1: you going to do about all of this? Because clearly

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Speaker 1: you're worried and unhappy. Now you might even be feeling

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Speaker 1: some empathy for his ex wife. Now you know what

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Speaker 1: she went through when he was with you. And no

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Speaker 1: matter how reasonable you say you are in this letter,

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Speaker 1: how are you not going to be checking his phone

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Speaker 1: and stuff? This marriage that you're in right now, it's

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Speaker 1: not good because he's not gonna stop what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: I mean that this is who he is and this

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Speaker 1: is who you married. Steve. Wow, just tell me the truth. Really,

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Speaker 1: Oh you're concerned about the truth now, all right, Well

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Speaker 1: let's tell you the truth. I will thank you, Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I've been married for two years to a man that's

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Speaker 1: twenty four years older than I am. I want you

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Speaker 1: to keep that information because I'm gonna bring it back.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four years older than I am. I was his

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Speaker 1: He got divorced to be with me, and after we

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Speaker 1: You know why, because nothing changed. You said, you got

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Speaker 1: to accept that things change. What's changed, it's the same,

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Speaker 1: it's the exact same. You had now have to accept

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Speaker 1: been partly because he was having sexual me when he

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Speaker 1: I don't understand you accepted the cheating before. See, but

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Speaker 1: you were the cheat. But you were the cheat turn,

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Speaker 1: want to be the cheat t. See. What's what's wrong

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Speaker 1: with you? Lady? What is wrong with you? How you

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Speaker 1: don't see this? But I'm wise? Here we go. Now

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Speaker 1: we did see this with stupid people throw me. But

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Speaker 1: I'm wise enough to know that he needs more than

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Speaker 1: one woman to make him feel like a king. That

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Speaker 1: ain't wisdom. That's called his track record. What the hell

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Speaker 1: that got to do with wisdom? It's his track record.

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Speaker 1: Like Shirley said, it's what he'd do. I won't say

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Speaker 1: that I'm miserable with him because we have a lot

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Speaker 1: just wish he'd tell me the truth about what he's

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Speaker 1: doing on the side. What you need to hear the

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Speaker 1: truth about what you already know he doing on the

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Speaker 1: side because you don't. You don't check his phone and

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Speaker 1: social media. Kids get kids in social media accounts. Here

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Speaker 1: the stupid line. I get in his car, I smell

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Speaker 1: see a word. Oh you stupid, Oh you hella stupid.

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Speaker 1: You get in the car and you smell perfume on

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Speaker 1: the seat belt and you don't say a word. That

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Speaker 1: makes you a good, reasonable wife, That makes you a food,

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Speaker 1: a damn food, And I ain't got number more this

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Speaker 1: hold on, Steve, Well, last part two of your response

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

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Speaker 1: strawberry letter subject, Just tell me the truth. We'll get

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Speaker 1: back into it right after this. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letter subject. Just tell me the truth.

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Speaker 1: What is with all these truths? I've had my feel

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Speaker 1: of truth to Dave will I GQ telling the truth

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Speaker 1: to Straba and letter truth us. What happened to shut

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Speaker 1: your damn mouth? What happened to that? Don't you know?

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Speaker 1: Truth ain't the best policy. Silence is shut show damn mouth.

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Speaker 1: Now here we go. I'm mad, no, so hell, let

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Speaker 1: me quit trying to fix this up. This stupid ass

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Speaker 1: woman didn't married this man just twenty four years older

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Speaker 1: than she is, and she was his side piece for

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Speaker 1: two years. He got divorced to be with her, and

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Speaker 1: after we got married, things changed. Well I guess what

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Speaker 1: she say changed. I had to accept that my man

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Speaker 1: was not gonna be in a monogamous relationship. Ain't nothing changed.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't even one before when he was cheating with

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Speaker 1: you for two years. It's the same, and I have

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Speaker 1: to accept that, probably because he was having sexual me

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Speaker 1: while he was married. I never signed up or agreed

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Speaker 1: to an open marriage. His ex wife didn't even wow

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Speaker 1: see butt night. But you turn it into an open marriage.

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Speaker 1: And now you married to the dude that was cheating

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Speaker 1: want it to be open. But that's what he'd do. Well.

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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say I'm miserable because we have a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. We go to exotic places. I just

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Speaker 1: wish he'd tell me the truth about what he's doing

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Speaker 1: on the side. Did you hear yourself? I just wish

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Speaker 1: on the side. Everybody nothing, Hattie will Smith, whoa we

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Speaker 1: all not fitting gone or tabletop, all this here, do

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Speaker 1: this here? We just not fit to do this here.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what you expect him to do,

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Speaker 1: but he doing what he'd do. I'm I'm I'm a

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Speaker 1: most reasonable wife on the planet. I don't check his

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Speaker 1: Now listen to me. I know he loves me because

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Speaker 1: he chose me over his wife. He didn't choose you.

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Speaker 1: His wife got rid of him. You're not listening. His

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Speaker 1: wife got rid of him. And he wouldn't got you

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Speaker 1: because he know you a fool, and he can do

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Speaker 1: what he want to do to you and steal and

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Speaker 1: get a wife too. But now, I thought he would

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Speaker 1: But he lies to me about simple things like where

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Speaker 1: he had lunch. Wait a minute, He was open and

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Speaker 1: honest about you in the marriage because he was telling

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Speaker 1: you he was unhappy, but he was lying to his wife.

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Speaker 1: But he told you he was unhappy. You thought that

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Speaker 1: was honesty. Everybody cheats say they're unhappy. Then he lied

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Speaker 1: about what friends he would be, lied about, taking a shower,

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Speaker 1: credit card. He just did? He just lie live. I

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Speaker 1: hung up on him and one time I called it

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Speaker 1: bobs barbershop, called the house he left his credit card,

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Speaker 1: I called it barber. I called him and told him

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Speaker 1: I hung up him and cancel the car so no

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Speaker 1: told him repeatedly, he does not have to lie to

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Speaker 1: me because I'm not going anywhere. Well, I'm not since

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Speaker 1: Why do y'all have to talk? He don't have to

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Speaker 1: check this out, how is he going to keep this

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Speaker 1: twenty four years old? And how old his ass got

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Speaker 1: to be? Hard time you said how is he going

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Speaker 1: to keep this up as he gets older? You said

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Speaker 1: you've been married two years to a man that's twenty

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Speaker 1: four years older than I am. How old his ass

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Speaker 1: got to be? He twenty four years older than you?

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Speaker 1: And your concern is how is he gonna keep this

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Speaker 1: up as he gets older? He already old keeping it up?

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Speaker 1: He doing five? Matter of fact, he killing it. Am

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Speaker 1: I setting myself up for a lot of heartache and

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Speaker 1: headaches with this man? Please? No, you're not setting yourself

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Speaker 1: up for a heartache and headaches and heartaches. You're in

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Speaker 1: the headache and the heartache. You're in it. You didn't

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Speaker 1: set yourself up. You arranged it when you thought he

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Speaker 1: was leaving his wife for you, when in actuality, he

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Speaker 1: got put out by his wife because he got busted.

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Speaker 1: Then he went straight to you. You know what, Let

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Speaker 1: me fix this for y'all. I've haven't told y'all over

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Speaker 1: and over that we do not give promotions. I've told

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Speaker 1: y'all that, So now you think he left her to

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Speaker 1: I told y'all we don't do promotions. Y'all, don't believe me.

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Speaker 1: I've been a man my whole life. We don't do promotions.

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Speaker 1: He didn't leave his wife for you. He left his

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Speaker 1: got you and made you his wife. What you thought

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Speaker 1: have mess. I've been telling y'all we don't give promotions.

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Speaker 1: Can't be the side piece and me and the wife?

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Speaker 1: How far what you wanted? The truth? There's the truth.

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