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Speaker 2: My good friend ever.

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Speaker 1: Thank you junior subject he came home with bedbugs. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm in my late thirties and I'm married

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Speaker 1: to an older man. We dated for a short period

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Speaker 1: of time and he moved in with me before we

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Speaker 1: got married four months ago. My husband is in mean.

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Speaker 1: My home is in a cozy, close knit community, and

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Speaker 1: one of my neighbors recognized my husband and couldn't wait

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Speaker 1: to come give me some gossip on him. She said,

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Speaker 1: my husband was messing around with her aunt a few

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Speaker 1: months before he met me, and she thinks he's been

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Speaker 1: seeing her again since we got married. She described her

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Speaker 1: aunt as a slut that sleeps around and keeps a

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Speaker 1: nasty house with cats and dogs all over the place.

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Speaker 1: She said her aunt tried to sleep with her daddy,

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Speaker 1: so nobody in the family deals with her anymore. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to ask my husband about the woman. He

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Speaker 1: says he knows of her, but that he's never slept

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Speaker 1: with her or been to her house. I was sure

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Speaker 1: to tell my neighbor that my husband never fooled around

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Speaker 1: with her aunt. My neighbor jokingly said, if my husband

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Speaker 1: ever comes home with fleas, lice or bedbugs, he is

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Speaker 1: definitely still messing with her aunt. I didn't pay her

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Speaker 1: any mind until three weeks later, when I was lying

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Speaker 1: in the bed and my cabs and feet started itching.

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Speaker 1: I threw back my sheet and saw tiny black dots

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Speaker 1: on the sheets, and it looks like all of them

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Speaker 1: were moving. I woke my husband up and accused him

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Speaker 1: of bringing bed bugs home. I checked his khakis and

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Speaker 1: they had a few bugs too. He said the bed

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Speaker 1: bugs could have come from anywhere. We got rid of

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Speaker 1: the bugs, but should I get rid of my husband too?

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Speaker 1: Do you think my messy neighbor was right about this?

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Speaker 1: Please advise, really you want advice from us, because you

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Speaker 1: already know the deal. Your husband is sleeping with the

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Speaker 1: nasty woman with the cats and dogs and all of that.

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Speaker 1: You're I mean, what now he's brought bed bugs home?

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Speaker 1: This is so disgusting. So let me ask you something.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna just wait for him to bring something

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Speaker 1: even worse home while he's sleeping with her, like a

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Speaker 1: rash or an infection or a disease or something, And

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Speaker 1: he's lying about it, saying he knows of her, but

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Speaker 1: he never slept with her here. Right, So it looks

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Speaker 1: like your neighbor was correct about everything. I mean, she's

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Speaker 1: nosy and a gossip and all of that, but it

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Speaker 1: looks like she's got her fact straight because she's the

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Speaker 1: one who told you first hand about the bed bugs,

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Speaker 1: and three weeks later he brought them home. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, you can believe what you want to think

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Speaker 1: in your head, or you can believe what's what was

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Speaker 1: right before you and on you bed bugs on your

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Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, So believe her, all right, that's all.

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Speaker 1: She's not lying about this bed bugs. Come on, just

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Speaker 1: thinking about it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Steve, I'm a little toring on this left.

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Speaker 1: You don't believe it?

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Speaker 3: Not really, It's a lot going on, but it's so

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Speaker 3: many different conflicting statements in this letter.

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Speaker 2: You in your late thirties, You married to this old dude.

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Speaker 3: Now he moved in before y'all got married four months ago.

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Speaker 2: Your home is in a cozy, close knit community.

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Speaker 3: And one of my neighbors recognized my husband and couldn't

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Speaker 3: work to give me some gospel on it.

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Speaker 2: If she said, your.

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Speaker 3: Husband was messing around with her aunt a few months

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Speaker 3: before we met, and she thinks he's still seeing her

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Speaker 3: since we got married. How does she know this? She

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Speaker 3: clearly said that your husband was messing around with this

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Speaker 3: she thinks he's still seeing her again since we got married.

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Speaker 3: She thinks that why she described her aunt as a

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Speaker 3: slut that sleeps all over town, keep a nasty house,

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Speaker 3: with her aneymore. Okay, couldn't wait to ask my husband

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Speaker 3: about the woman. Here's where the letter took a turn.

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Speaker 3: He said, he knows of her, but he's never slept

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Speaker 2: To her house.

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Speaker 3: What's the chances of your husband knowing of this woman

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Speaker 3: who just happens to be a slug. Who your messy

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Speaker 3: neighbor says she recognizes your hook?

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Speaker 2: What's the chance of that? I mean, don't it.

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Speaker 3: Don't make no sense in this whole world we live in,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: So right, what shary?

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Speaker 1: Why do you say it doesn't make sense?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 1: Explain that part? Why not?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out. Know what I'm saying is

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Speaker 3: what doesn't make sense is how.

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Speaker 2: He says to you that he knows of this woman.

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Speaker 3: Right, he says he knows of her, but he's never

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Speaker 3: slept with her or been to her house. Of all

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Speaker 3: the women in the world, how does your husband even

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Speaker 3: know of this woman? See, your house is in a cozy,

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Speaker 3: close knit commun and one.

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Speaker 2: Of your neighbors recognized my husband.

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Speaker 3: Your husband don't live now, how did your husband just

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Speaker 3: out of everybody? And then when you accuse him of

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Speaker 3: this woman? Ask him, he says he knows of her.

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Speaker 3: Damn dog, you'd have been better off just saying I

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Speaker 3: don't even know.

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Speaker 2: Who you're talking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he lies.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you said you know you know of her,

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Speaker 3: that kind of opened the door.

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Speaker 2: Dog doubt Well, we ain't even got to that part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, all right, hold that thought, Steve. Okay, we'll

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

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Speaker 1: three minutes after the hour, subject he came home with

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Speaker 1: bed bugs. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Steve Hardy Morning Show. Come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's Strawberry letters. Subject he came home with bed bugs?

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Speaker 1: Well you'renot.

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Speaker 3: This woman has a messy friend. They live in a

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Speaker 3: cozy knit neighborhood. Your man that you met, who's older

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Speaker 3: y'all before y'all got married four months ago you moved in.

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Speaker 2: One of your neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Recognized him and said your husband was messing around with

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Speaker 3: her aunt a few months before he met you, and

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Speaker 3: she thinks he's been seeing her again since we got married.

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Speaker 3: Who is this woman? Man that just comes up you

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Speaker 3: damn and I think he's still seeing her. She said

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Speaker 3: her aunt tried to sleep with her daddy, so nobody

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Speaker 3: in her fan sills.

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Speaker 2: With her anymore. That line right there.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't wait to ask my husband about the woman.

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Speaker 3: He says he knows of her, but he's was slept

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Speaker 3: with her, been to her house dog. Of all the

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Speaker 3: women in the world, how did you get accused? Of this,

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Speaker 3: and then you say I know of her. But that's

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Speaker 3: how stupid he is. He's gonna said, I have no

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Speaker 3: idea what you're talking about. I don't know the woman

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Speaker 3: like that. Where you getting me from? So then I

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Speaker 3: couldn't wait to tell my neighbor that my husband never

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Speaker 3: fooled around with her. My neighbor jokingly said, well, if

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Speaker 3: your husband never come home with fleas lights of bed bulls,

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Speaker 3: definitely still messing with her?

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Speaker 2: What is in her damn house?

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Speaker 3: Who is famous for fleas lice and bed bugs? So

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Speaker 3: I ain't pay any mind until three weeks out. I'm

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Speaker 3: laying in bed, my calfs and feet started you. I

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Speaker 3: threw back my sheets and saw tiny black dots on

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Speaker 3: the sheet. Didn't look like all of them was moving. Well,

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Speaker 3: now them is fleas, Them is fleas bed bugs. I've

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Speaker 3: never seen one, but I heard they're a little bit different.

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Speaker 3: I checked his khakis and they had a few bugs too.

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Speaker 3: He said, the bed bugs bad bus could have come

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Speaker 3: from anywhere. That's a true statement. We got rid of

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Speaker 3: the bugs, but should I get rid of my husband too?

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Speaker 3: Do you think my messy neighbor was right about this?

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Speaker 2: Please about see now? We got a little problem because

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Speaker 2: your husband's stupid. I know I know of her, but

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Speaker 2: I ain't never been over her house. He's lying, bro,

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Speaker 2: How do.

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Speaker 3: You know of a random woman that some random other

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Speaker 3: woman accused you be?

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you just say I don't know this woman?

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Speaker 2: Because not? But now what they got to do with

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Speaker 2: what you're supposed to say?

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Speaker 1: That's why you're mad though, I'm mad about the bed bugs.

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Speaker 3: That's what you're supposed to say.

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Speaker 2: Standard a dumb ass man. I know.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna turn yourself in with ignorant information. Do I

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Speaker 3: think it's him? Possibly it's them bugs in the pockets

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Speaker 3: because you got to take them pants off somewhere. If

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Speaker 3: you laid down at the foot of the bed, you

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Speaker 3: that already said they was down there by your uh

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Speaker 3: have the foot of the bed.

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Speaker 2: That's what the khakas was laid.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, well, it's a bunch of them though.

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Speaker 2: They're everywhere because she's itching. She just started itching. How

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Speaker 2: is she this damn house?

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Speaker 3: The woman with the catch dogs, the light, the fleas,

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Speaker 3: the ticks.

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Speaker 2: The big bugs. How is she living in this nasty house?

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Speaker 2: And who go over there? I was.

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Speaker 3: I dated a girl one time, long time ago. They

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Speaker 3: had a nasty house. That date was so short. I

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Speaker 3: felt she had a baby too. I felt bad for

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Speaker 3: the baby. Where can he eat in him? Oh? God, no, man,

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Speaker 3: I went, damn fine cheek, nice looking lord her Mercy.

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Speaker 3: Why is all this? And I'm sitting on the couch

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Speaker 3: man after work one day? You know, I worked at

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Speaker 3: Ford Motor Company. You know I ain't married, So I'm

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Speaker 3: looking around this house going I got on work clothes

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Speaker 3: and I'm trying to get up. I ain't got no

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Speaker 3: where to sit with you. And you know how stuff

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Speaker 3: be happening. You just be looking around like is there

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Speaker 3: something over that movie?

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Speaker 1: You can't ever be comfortable, You can't ever just she said, who.

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Speaker 2: I just don't be having time to clean this house up.

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Speaker 2: It's so big.

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Speaker 3: This is the last house ain't And that's the one

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Speaker 3: thing I cannot then. A woman who's not clean, A

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Speaker 3: dude not being clean, okay, a woman not clean. That's

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Speaker 3: scary because I'm already not the neatest guy.

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Speaker 1: And and nasty and like messy or junkie or two

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Speaker 1: entirely different things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't deal with a junkie woman either, because,

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Speaker 3: like I say, I'm not the neatest guy in the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can't. With the bed bugs. I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I'm out, all right, man.

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Speaker 2: Listen thanks Steve.

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