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Speaker 1: For example, when we met, he told me he lived

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Speaker 1: what I mean, that was it. I cursed him out

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Speaker 1: and told him he's a borderline bum that lived with

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Speaker 1: just wanted him to understand that he's not perfect either.

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Speaker 1: Why do women always have to take the good with

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Speaker 1: the bad, but men want us to be perfect and flawless.

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Speaker 1: What can I do to get this man back? Please?

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Speaker 1: Help girl get him back. You better run away and

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Speaker 1: keep running. Okay? Why would you want to get back

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Speaker 1: mean my answer is gonna be really short. I'm almost done. Okay,

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Speaker 1: not only that, I mean the man insulted you twice. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to take this from anyone. He said

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Speaker 1: Please get yourself esteem up and listen to your gut

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Speaker 1: when it tells you to leave and leave him alone. Please. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you already cursed, so listen to your gut. Literally, somebody said,

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Speaker 1: come on, you already cursed him out and called him

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Speaker 1: this is probably gonna be my favorite letter. How many

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Speaker 1: give me a hot deal you got about lord? Good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good money. Here we go. Your ex boyfriend has a

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Speaker 1: his place, you pull up. This didn't get shaken to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why he ain't said a damn

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Speaker 1: the bad. That is the subject. Let's go dating. This

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Speaker 1: man had a lot of flaws. Told you live downstairs

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Speaker 1: And then you did down to the basement. You down

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Speaker 1: at the furnishing water heater. That's where you ask you

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Speaker 1: that boy that furnished, that's that's touching gold. I try

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Speaker 1: It's a hard place to be naked on them dust

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Speaker 1: you even moting downtown? You downstairs? You ain't just downstairs.

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Speaker 1: You're in the basement. We cain't getting no lower in

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Speaker 1: You have sex down now. The man had the nerve

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Speaker 1: That was it. I cussed him out. I told him

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Speaker 1: he's a borderline bomb that lived with his ex wife.

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Speaker 1: He got a big stomach and a little bitty everything else.

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Speaker 1: Now since then, he ain't spoken to me. I ain't

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Speaker 1: said to him that you didn't mean to hurt him.

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Speaker 1: out your damn he got a big stomach. That would

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Speaker 1: Ain't really bothered me. I don't even call it the

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Speaker 1: it income. Yeah, I'm doing well, so I can get

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Speaker 1: That's where the pain come in. I know my stomach

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Speaker 1: ain't I know where it ain't flat like it well,

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Speaker 1: And then I just wanted him understand. You know, he

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Speaker 1: I just want him to understand that he not perfect either.

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Speaker 1: Well he know now why the women always have to

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Speaker 1: to be perfect. Mean, what what what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: He ain't perfect. He stayed downstairs, under the downstairs. He

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Speaker 1: because he ain't nothing. You don't see what he did.

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Speaker 1: He tried to bring you down to make himself look

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Speaker 1: He ain't got the stomach you light and now we

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Speaker 1: didn't find out all of them to eaty bitty parts.

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Speaker 1: He got that you don't like this Jack Johnson can't

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Speaker 1: He got? He got another nickname like t t sweet pee, pil,

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Speaker 1: little mate, little mate, mighty mouse, tiny tops, no tater top.

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Speaker 1: Now come over here with your tater top looking at it.

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Speaker 1: You take that big as tater tops on. You look

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Speaker 1: said about her, hies, Your taters the same size as

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see what you want with him.

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Speaker 1: I really don't want him back with his ex wife

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