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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter. Thank you neew subjects. Is this

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Speaker 1: considered cheating or not? Dear Stephen Shirley, I've been in

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Speaker 1: a relationship for four years and my boyfriend and I

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Speaker 1: lived three hours apart. We've always been in a long

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Speaker 1: he started talking about marriage. After we date it two

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Speaker 1: years and he said he would gladly move to Philly

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Speaker 1: and I started preparing myself emotionally and financially to be

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Speaker 1: year he started saying that the distance was killing him

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Speaker 1: can't because I lived so far away. I thought that

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Speaker 1: he would go ahead and propose, but he hasn't. I

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Speaker 1: started visiting him more, but he made excuses when it

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Speaker 1: was time to come see me a few times. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want us to grow apart, so I did whatever

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Speaker 1: I could to keep the sparks flying in the bedroom.

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Speaker 1: I was visiting him one weekend and there was a

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Speaker 1: it was this. It was crusty and stiff, and I

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Speaker 1: am no fool, so I know what it looked like.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was incredibly tacky of him to leave

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Speaker 1: confirmed my thoughts. He said he went out a week

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Speaker 1: or so before before I got there, and a female

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Speaker 1: friend of his helped him out orally. He said he

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Speaker 1: didn't return the favor to her, but she willingly did him.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's not like he cheated, and it helped

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Speaker 1: him out because he missed making love to me. I

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Speaker 1: was livid, and all he kept saying was he did

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Speaker 1: this for us, and it's not cheating. I have needs too,

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Speaker 1: but I've never had a quick hookup with my male friend.

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Speaker 1: Is this cheating or not? Should I break up with him? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Come on, this is really cheating. Did he actually fix

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Speaker 1: his mouth to say he did this for us? For

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Speaker 1: the both of you? If it has a word sex

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Speaker 1: in it, it's cheating. Okay, it is cheating. But I

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Speaker 1: don't understand this relationship anyway, I really don't. You're doing

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Speaker 1: happened to all of that? I thought he was moving

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Speaker 1: to Philly? What happened? And what's taking so long? He

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Speaker 1: has no plans to move. He doesn't even talk about

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Speaker 1: it anymore. You didn't even say if he's packing, if

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Speaker 1: he has a move in date? None of that. And

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Speaker 1: if you know, if a person is serious, he would

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Speaker 1: certainly have proposed to you by now, where's your ring?

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Speaker 1: He didn't put a ring on it. And of course

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Speaker 1: the distance is a factor. That's why many times long

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Speaker 1: distance relationships don't work out. I mean, what happens when

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Speaker 1: you're a part Stuff like this happens. A woman in

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Speaker 1: your case, in his case, can come in and help

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Speaker 1: him out orally, as he says, you know when you're

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Speaker 1: a part, you don't know what he's doing. But I

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Speaker 1: guess you do know what he's doing now, And you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have known anything if his stupid behind didn't leave

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Speaker 1: that nasty, old, crusty towel you in the backseat of

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Speaker 1: his car. How convenient, by the way, even after four years,

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Speaker 1: he still hasn't moved. He's playing with you, and he's

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Speaker 1: So I say to you, go ahead and free yourself.

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Speaker 1: Free yourself so you can get with a new man

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Speaker 1: in your same city. All right, Steve, I cannot believe

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Speaker 1: what I just read. I just can't crazy. This don't

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Speaker 1: make no damn sense. Okay, lady, you've been in a

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Speaker 1: to sleep. YadA, YadA, YadA yad. I thought he'd go

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Speaker 1: ahead and proposed, but he ain't. I started visiting him

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Speaker 1: more than he made excuse it with his time come

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Speaker 1: in there doing monkey flips. Plus it's gymnasium equipment in now.

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Speaker 1: I was visiting him one weekend and there was a tie.

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Speaker 1: was visiting him one weekend. That was a towel on

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Speaker 1: I picked up the tie and it was crusty and stiff.

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Speaker 1: him about it and he confirmed my thoughts. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: I know what it looked like, and I thought was

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Speaker 1: he confirmed my thoughts. That was too much doubt what

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Speaker 1: it looked like, what I thought it was, just what

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Speaker 1: the substance could be. Why did you confirm half thoughts?

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Speaker 1: That's what this whole damn that is about. And when

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Speaker 1: I come back, this is all we gonna talk about.

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Speaker 1: Why All right, Steve, thank you Hang on to that

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Speaker 1: the hour with part two of your response today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: Subject Is this considered cheating or not? We'll get back

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening to show, all right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, it's time to recap today's Strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: thee Is this considered cheating or not? Here's a couple

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Speaker 1: He was talking about man for three years. He stopped

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Speaker 1: talking about it last year, talking about he missed her.

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Speaker 1: He just want to lie next to it to me

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Speaker 1: go stale. You've been doing everything you can do in

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Speaker 1: the bedroom, keeping fresh, monkey flips, Jim Nask equipment apparatuss suitcases, luggage, lotions,

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Speaker 1: a oh, she all balanced, being uneven, parallel balls, ticklers, fellas,

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Speaker 1: handcuffs and meat house shoes. Everything is going on video

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Speaker 1: cam quarters also little people, monkeys. It's all in here.

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Speaker 1: And you visited him, and he would make excuses for

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Speaker 1: substance was on it. I asked him about it, and

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Speaker 1: this damned food confirmed my thoughts. She didn't accuse you

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Speaker 1: this sticky, crusty stuff that's on this tie? Why in

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Speaker 1: the hell would you confirm her thoughts? Don't get won't

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Speaker 1: She said, I'm no fool. I know what it looked like.

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Speaker 1: That's doubt. I thought it was incredibly tacky of him

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Speaker 1: to leave it in the car. I thought, that's doubt.

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Speaker 1: No matter what the substance was, she still ain't called

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Speaker 1: it nothing. It's just substance was that's doubt. I asked

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Speaker 1: him about it, that's no doubt, and then he confirmed

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Speaker 1: it with his stupid ass. He said he went out

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Speaker 1: on a week or so before I got there, and

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Speaker 1: willingly did him. He said, it's not like he cheated

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Speaker 1: and it helped him out because he missed making love

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Speaker 1: to me. I was living, and all he kept saying

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Speaker 1: I have needs to but I've never had a quick

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Speaker 1: hook up with my male friend. It is this cheating

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Speaker 1: or not? Should not break up with him? You could

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Speaker 1: have said that twe was anything except I wasted ice

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Speaker 1: cream on the back of that works? That works? Yes?

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Speaker 1: What is this on this towel that ain't a tie?

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Speaker 1: That is not a twe baby, that's wrapping paper, wrapping paper.

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Speaker 1: It's still and it's crunching. That's wrapping. It works, That's

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're not gonna confirm her thoughts. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what is the substance on this towel? Darrel threw up

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Speaker 1: last week? Darrel threw up last week? Work Darrel? Why

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Speaker 1: are you throw it away? Why is it still in here?

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Speaker 1: I don't know? He's just back there, he was back there.

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Speaker 1: you when you find us around? Islip? You know, Daryl,

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Speaker 1: what you're doing with Darrel's tie? All? I asked me again,

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Speaker 1: what is the substance on What is this? I don't

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Speaker 1: know that's the dog's tie. You don't even have a dog,

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Speaker 1: Darrel got a dog, darl Darrel and his dog, Daryl's

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Speaker 1: Ask me what else to do the substance? What is this?

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Speaker 1: That's kind of wax? Darrel died and I was at

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Speaker 1: what if I don't know that ain't my tie in

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Speaker 1: your car? The hell if I know that? Damn Darrel

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Speaker 1: probably before he died put it in there. Asked me again,

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Speaker 1: it is crusty and stiff. That's my mama's toilet. Seek

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Speaker 1: cover asked me again, what that's and a freeze on

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Speaker 1: that tie. I used that tie to wax the car.

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Speaker 1: Any one of them? Yeah, except my girlfriend helped me.

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Speaker 1: Or boy, your dumb ass all right. Poster comments on

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