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Speaker 1: I went right over there and got him. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm forty two years old and I dated a man

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Speaker 1: for eight years and we broke up about five months ago.

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Speaker 1: For years, he told me that he wanted to get

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Speaker 1: married and we'd get engaged when the time was right.

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Speaker 1: He told me that he wanted to have babies with

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Speaker 1: me and buy me a big house. He had the

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Speaker 1: means to do everything he promised me, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: follow through. He preferred to be out with his friends

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Speaker 1: to over or over his parents house. I started seeing

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Speaker 1: the signs that either he was tired of me or

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Speaker 1: had he had someone else. He assured me that he

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Speaker 1: was just getting out more. And you know, since we've

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Speaker 1: been in a house together for two years because of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, I started to feel like our relationship was

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Speaker 1: a joke, and it was. He didn't even have the

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Speaker 1: decency to tell me that he was moving on and

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Speaker 1: we were done. On a Friday night, five months ago,

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Speaker 1: he staged an argument so he could leave. He packed

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Speaker 1: up most of his clothes in one night, and he left.

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Speaker 1: The next morning. I woke up he was getting the

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Speaker 1: TVs off the wall. I threw myself at him and

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Speaker 1: made a fool of myself as I begged and pleaded

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Speaker 1: with him to stay with me. His friend that was

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Speaker 1: with him had tears in his eyes too, and he

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Speaker 1: tried to calm me down. My man was emotionless and

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Speaker 1: just kept getting more of his stuff so he could leave.

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Speaker 1: After two months of going crazy and trying to talk

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Speaker 1: to him, his friend told me that my man is

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Speaker 1: engaged to one of his exes and they lived together.

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Speaker 1: I went right over to her house and tried to

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Speaker 1: get my man back. His fiance says she's sorry and

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Speaker 1: that he didn't tell me, but they've been back together

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Speaker 1: for almost a year, I still begged him to leave

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Speaker 1: with me. Still today, I feel like such a fool.

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Speaker 1: What did I do to deserve this? Why couldn't he

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Speaker 1: just say he wanted to leave me? Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: he didn't say it because some men, you know, they

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Speaker 1: just start right. You know that they can't handle telling

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Speaker 1: the truth when they want to break up. They would

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Speaker 1: rather do just what he did and just leave stage

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Speaker 1: and argument or something like that and get out of there.

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Speaker 1: But I got to ask you, you were with him

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Speaker 1: eight years. You didn't see any signs. I mean you

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Speaker 1: said that. You know, he was hanging out with his

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Speaker 1: parents and his friends and all of that. You saw

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Speaker 1: something going on, You felt something, You knew something wasn't right.

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Speaker 1: Why were you with him for eight years? Anyway? You

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Speaker 1: know what? I just say this, You should be happy

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Speaker 1: that he's gone. You should be I mean, he's no

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Speaker 1: longer cheating on you, he's no longer lying to you

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Speaker 1: all of that, he's no longer playing you. Right now,

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Speaker 1: you're playing yourself. Just let him go. He has clearly

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Speaker 1: moved on with this woman. You know, you said he

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Speaker 1: had the means to do everything that he promised you

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Speaker 1: but he never followed through. So for eight years you

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Speaker 1: knew that and you still stayed with him. I think

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Speaker 1: at this point you have more of a relationship with

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Speaker 1: his fiance that he's been with for a year than

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Speaker 1: you have with him, because at least she apologized. Let

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Speaker 1: them have each other. You move on with your life.

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Speaker 1: It's over. He took the TVs off the wall. It's over. Steve, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is crazy. I wouldn't ride over there. Got him

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Speaker 1: right there? The Tyler letter, I went right on. It

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Speaker 1: ain't got him. No you didn't, No, you didn't. They

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Speaker 1: ain't got nobody. All right, there go, I'm forty two

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Speaker 1: data man for eight years. I mean, you've been dating

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Speaker 1: this man since she was thirty four years old. Y'all

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Speaker 1: broke up five months ago. Now listen to that. They

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Speaker 1: broke up five months ago. Why is she writing us

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Speaker 1: a letter of a breakup that occurred five months ago?

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Speaker 1: You know why? Because she won't let it go cost

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Speaker 1: for years. He told me he wanted to get mad

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Speaker 1: a big house. He had the means to do everything.

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Speaker 1: This is a dangerous line. He had the means to

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Speaker 1: do everything. I might have to come back to that happen,

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Speaker 1: he promised me, but he didn't follow. Three, he preferred

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Speaker 1: to be out with his friends over to his parent's house. Wait, man,

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Speaker 1: over to his parent's house. You think this grown ass

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Speaker 1: man was going over to his mom and daddy house.

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Speaker 1: He was going over to a house, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't at his friend's house or his mom and

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Speaker 1: daddy house. He was at his new house. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you. I started seeing the signs that

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Speaker 1: either he was tired of me or he had someone else.

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Speaker 1: He just told you he was getting out more. Since

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Speaker 1: we've been in the house together for two years because

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic breaks here we go. Daddy is right.

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Speaker 1: Y'all was stuck in that house together for two years

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Speaker 1: in the pandemic. That did it for him. He knew

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Speaker 1: in that two year period during the pandemic, you was

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Speaker 1: not the one for him. You should have discovered in

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Speaker 1: that pandemic that he was not the one for you.

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Speaker 1: So y'all broke up that pandemic broke up a lot

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Speaker 1: at home. Oh, it's a statistic out there that a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot of divorces came out of that pandemic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you started to feel like your relationship was a joke,

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Speaker 1: and it was. He didn't even have the decent intemment.

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Speaker 1: He was moving on and we are done. And then

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Speaker 1: something happened on a Friday night. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you how he told you. But you just

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Speaker 1: didn't listen when we come back. All right, See, we

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Speaker 1: will have part two of your response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the our Today's Strawberry letter, subject

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Speaker 1: I went right over there and got him. We'll get

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Speaker 1: back into the letter right after this. You're listening 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 I went right over there and got him. Now,

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Speaker 1: this woman right here lost a relationship. They had been

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Speaker 1: dating for eight years. She was thirty four. They broke

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Speaker 1: up five months ago. You're listening to that now, never

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Speaker 1: got engaged, got a bunch of false promises, said that

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Speaker 1: daddy's house, you stupid. I started seeing signs that either

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Speaker 1: Oh really, But he assured me that he was just

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Speaker 1: getting out more since y'all had been in the house

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Speaker 1: together for two years. During the pandemic. That pandemic broke

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Speaker 1: y'all up. Lady, he saw you every day for two years,

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Speaker 1: and he decided that ain't what he wanted to rest

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Speaker 1: of his life. He decided after two years, you wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: He saw that in the pandemic, and you didn't see

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Speaker 1: it in him. He was through with you after the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: That pandemic broke y'all up. He didn't even have a

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Speaker 1: dcncy to tell me that he was moving on and

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Speaker 1: we were done. Yes, he did, but you didn't hear

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Speaker 1: it though. This how I told you. On a Friday

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Speaker 1: night five months ago, he staged an argument so he

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Speaker 1: one night and left. Lady, you wasn't paying attention. He

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Speaker 1: already had a couple of boxes pack. He had been

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Speaker 1: working on this for about two weeks. A couple of

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Speaker 1: boxes was packed. You can't hear you. Ain't nobody move

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Speaker 1: in the night, Nobody steff be everywhere. You don't know it.

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Speaker 1: But it was a couple of prepackaged boxes. You just

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Speaker 1: didn't see it. He packed up, mostly clothed one night

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Speaker 1: he was getting TVs off the wall. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: you said, he told me he wanted to have babies

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Speaker 1: some but he had the means to do everything. Well,

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Speaker 1: hold on, if he had the means to do all this,

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Speaker 1: why is he in there taking TVs off the wall?

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Speaker 1: Sound like a poe ass moved to me. Sounded mighty

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Speaker 1: to stay. His friend that was with him had tears

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Speaker 1: I'm overhill. And what difference? Why you had to tell

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Speaker 1: us that his friend had tears in eye. The dude

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Speaker 1: that was hacking to take the TVs off the wall,

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Speaker 1: do his fiance wait a minute, just then jump. This

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Speaker 1: is his fiance now. His fiance says she was sorry

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Speaker 1: he didn't tell me, but they've been back together for

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Speaker 1: a year almost. I still begged him to leave with me.

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Speaker 1: He didn't, and still today I feel like such a food.

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Speaker 1: What did I do to deserve this? Well, probably nothing,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't You don't have to do nothing to get

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Speaker 1: beat yourself about what you deserve to do that. It happened.

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't he just say he wanted to leave me?

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Speaker 1: He said it. You wasn't listening when he told you

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Speaker 1: he was over his friend's house and his mama's house.

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Speaker 1: He was telling you did he was gone, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't listen to him when he saw packing him clothes.

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Speaker 1: What you think he was doing when you walk up

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Speaker 1: to them? TVs was coming off the wall. What do

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Speaker 1: and his fiance say, I'm sorry he didn't tell you,

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Speaker 1: but we've been together for over you. She didn't offer

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Speaker 1: him back, She didn't tell him to get out. Now

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Speaker 1: the decision was made. Everybody's made the decision that comes

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Speaker 1: to the conclusion. But you but oh no, you need closure.

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Speaker 1: It's over. He ain't coming back. He lived with her.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you hollight the dude to have the tears

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Speaker 1: to you, you know, you know, mister mister tl see

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Speaker 1: you know, since he had tears in his eye, you know,

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Speaker 1: But sometimes you just gotta move on. There's no closure.

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Speaker 1: It was a pandemic. Y'all found out a lot about

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Speaker 1: That's clear. Can we move on from this? Please? And

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