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Speaker 1: Here it is is Strawberry Letter all right now you

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Speaker 1: thank you. Subject. Am I just a rebound with a

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Speaker 1: nice apartment. Dear Stephen Shirley. I am twenty eight years

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Speaker 1: old and my boyfriend is twenty seven. He was an

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Speaker 1: old flame that I had in school, and I decided

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Speaker 1: to rekindle things with him. He pursued me, and I

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Speaker 1: finally gave in. I realized he was the missing piece

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Speaker 1: in my life and he told me the same thing.

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Speaker 1: He moved in with me the second week of our relationship,

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Speaker 1: and we were learning to love each other again. All

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Speaker 1: was well until he took me to his family reunion.

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Speaker 1: His ex girlfriend was there and he knew she would

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Speaker 1: be there. He has a daughter with her, so she

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Speaker 1: came with his daughter. My boyfriend's mama said that she

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Speaker 1: doesn't think it's appropriate that the ex girlfriend came, and

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Speaker 1: I need to tell my man to stop playing in

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Speaker 1: my face. I didn't trip because they have a child together,

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Speaker 1: but his mama put something on my mind. My boyfriend

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Speaker 1: was living with his mom when we started dating. He

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Speaker 1: said that he said that this girlfriend had put him

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Speaker 1: out and he'd been at his mom's house for a year.

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Speaker 1: When we got back together, I asked him if it

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Speaker 1: was over, if he was over his ex, because he

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Speaker 1: talked about her a lot. He held me close and

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Speaker 1: cried as he poured his heart out to me, telling

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Speaker 1: me how he feels about me. I believed everything he said,

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Speaker 1: but I've noticed that he posts more pictures of us

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Speaker 1: than I do, and I think that's strange for a

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Speaker 1: man to do. I recall how he was overdoing things

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Speaker 1: at the family reunion. He kept calling me baby, and

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Speaker 1: he kissed on me as much as he could. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be a rebound, and I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be housing him because he didn't have anywhere else

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Speaker 1: to go. Should I trust my intuition or am I

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Speaker 1: creating unnecessary drama in my head? Is he acting like

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Speaker 1: he's so in love with me? Just to make his

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Speaker 1: ex jealous. Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he could be using you for a place to stay

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Speaker 1: and to make his ex jealous. He could be. But

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Speaker 1: whose fault is this? I mean, this is yours? Who

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Speaker 1: allows someone to move in with them two weeks into

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Speaker 1: their relationship. You dated him in school. You don't know

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Speaker 1: the person he is now. You didn't give yourself time

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Speaker 1: to find out. Now the questions you should have asked

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Speaker 1: prior to his moving in, you're asking after the fact.

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Speaker 1: You're now living with a man who went from his

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Speaker 1: mom to his baby mama, back to his mom for

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Speaker 1: after two weeks of being with you just in school,

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Speaker 1: like you said, And he has a child, so you

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Speaker 1: know the child is going to be there on his

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Speaker 1: custody dates. So I have to ask because you didn't say,

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Speaker 1: is he contributing to the household? I mean, you said

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Speaker 1: you're learning to love each other again, but what are

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Speaker 1: your plans together? I mean, have you discussed any of

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Speaker 1: this since he's been there? The extra kissing at the

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Speaker 1: family reunion, his constant talking about his ex, and all

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Speaker 1: of the posting of the two of you by him.

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Speaker 1: That's raised red flags, and now you're feeling some kind

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Speaker 1: of way. You guys moved very fast in this relationship,

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Speaker 1: and now you're second guessing everything. So I say, trust

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Speaker 1: what you're feeling. It's not too late to change things.

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Speaker 1: You are not married to this man. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: sort things out, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Let me just get right to it. We ain't got

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Speaker 2: to mess around. I probably won't even need two breaks

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Speaker 2: to discuss this letter. The name subject is am I

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Speaker 2: a rebound with a nice apartment. My only question in

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Speaker 2: this whole letter is how come he always needs somewhere

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Speaker 2: to stay? U? Ha? This man ain't ever got where

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Speaker 2: he called home? How come he always got some were

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Speaker 2: to stay? Hey? He always needs some were to stay?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand this and what you want with him?

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Speaker 2: You twenty eight your boyfriend in twenty seven. He was

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Speaker 2: an old flame I had in school. Why y'all didn't

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Speaker 2: keep flaming? See? See that? What killed me about y'all?

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Speaker 2: Y'all find these old flames? You gotta ask him say

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Speaker 2: why didn't y'all keep flaming? What fizzled it out? I

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Speaker 2: decided to rekindle. Rekindle, let me relight the flame with him.

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Speaker 2: He pursued me. I finally gave in. Then you said,

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Speaker 2: I realized he was the missing peace in my life,

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Speaker 2: and he told me the same thing. Really, so he

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Speaker 2: moved in with me the second week of our relationship,

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Speaker 2: and we were learning to love each other again. Oh

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Speaker 2: so you moved in to learn to love each other

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Speaker 2: again instead of loving each other again then moving in? Okay,

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Speaker 2: all was well until he took me to his family reunion.

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Speaker 2: And here where the problems.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: His ex girlfriend was there and he knew she would

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Speaker 2: be there. He got a daughter with her, so she

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Speaker 2: came with the daughter your boyfriend. Mama said, she don't

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Speaker 2: think it's appropriate that the ex girlfriend came. Why she

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Speaker 2: had the family you and she ain't in the family

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Speaker 2: that y'all wasn't even made. You need to tell your

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Speaker 2: man to stop playing in your face. I didn't trip

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Speaker 2: because they have a child together. But this mama had

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Speaker 2: put something on my mind. My boyfriend that he would

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Speaker 2: go was living with his mom when we started dating.

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Speaker 2: Red Flag twenty eight year old man living with his mama.

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Speaker 2: When y'all started dating, I got news for you. When

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Speaker 2: he was in school, he was living with his mama.

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Speaker 2: Now he twenty eight, he living with his mama. Y'all

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Speaker 2: started dating, and two weeks later he lived with you.

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Speaker 2: Here's my original question when I first got this letter,

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Speaker 2: why he always needs somewhere to stay? M What decisions

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Speaker 2: has this nothing ask dude made where he ain't ever

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Speaker 2: got nowhere to stay? He ain't got a key to

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Speaker 2: hang on, no lease with his name on it.

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Speaker 1: We'll have part two of your response coming up at.

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Speaker 2: After the hour.

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Speaker 1: Today's strawberry letter, subject that might just rebound with a

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Speaker 1: nice apartment. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening Morning show? All right, Come on, Steve, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letter. The subject, Am I just to

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Speaker 1: rebound with the nice apartment?

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Speaker 2: Well, he would go again because I just saw something

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Speaker 2: on the break, y'all. Let me point it out. The

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Speaker 2: name of this letter should be why he ain't ever

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Speaker 2: got nowhere to stay? This is twenty eight year old woman.

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Speaker 2: She's dating a boyfriend of twenty seven. There was old

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Speaker 2: flames in school. Something caused it to fizzle out. They

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Speaker 2: ran up into each other. Recently, she rekindled things with him.

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Speaker 2: That means she lit the fire. He pursued me and

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Speaker 2: finally gave in. Well, it wasn't a long pursuit because

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Speaker 2: it was only two weeks. She realized he was a

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Speaker 2: missing piece in her life and she was a missing

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Speaker 2: piece in his life. That's what he told her. So

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Speaker 2: he moved in with me. The second week of our relationship,

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Speaker 2: we were learning to love each other again. Then they

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Speaker 2: finally thought it was going good till it took him

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Speaker 2: to the family reunion and his ex girlfriend was there

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Speaker 2: and they happened to have a baby together. Your boyfriend's

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Speaker 2: mama told you he need to quit playing in your

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Speaker 2: face because there was no reason for the girl to

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Speaker 2: be there at the family reunion. So you didn't trip

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Speaker 2: because you got a child together. But his mama put

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Speaker 2: something on your mind. But listen to this. My boyfriend

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Speaker 2: was living with his mom when we started dating. What

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Speaker 2: the hell? He said that his girlfriend here we go,

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Speaker 2: had put him out, so now he was living with

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Speaker 2: another person. She put him out, so he didn't live

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Speaker 2: with his mama when he was in school. Then he

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Speaker 2: lived with this girl till she put him out. Now

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Speaker 2: he lived with you, and he been his mom's house

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Speaker 2: for a year, a whole year. When we got I

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Speaker 2: asked him if he was over his ex, because he

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Speaker 2: talks about her a lot. Now, Hi, go okay, Now,

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Speaker 2: if I'm talking about my ex to a woman, hit

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Speaker 2: the one thing I ain't finna do. He held me

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Speaker 2: close and cried as he poured his heart out to me.

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Speaker 2: Why the hell am I holding you close crying talking

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Speaker 2: about my ex?

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Speaker 1: How that son?

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Speaker 2: What's this dude? What kind of man do you think

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Speaker 2: you have? Because obviously everybody keep figuring he ain't a man,

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Speaker 2: even his mama, because mama keep letting him come back

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Speaker 2: home because she got to take care of her baby.

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Speaker 1: Oh lord, mess you.

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Speaker 2: I believed everything he said, but I've noticed that he

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Speaker 2: posts more pictures of us than I do. I think

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Speaker 2: that's strange for a man to do. I recall he

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Speaker 2: was overdoing things at the firm of union, kept calling

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Speaker 2: me baby, kissed on me as much as he could.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be a rebound and I don't

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Speaker 2: want to be housing him because he didn't have anywhere

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Speaker 2: else to go. What the hell you think you doing? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he lived at a mama's house when he was in school.

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Speaker 2: He had a baby with another girl. He lived at

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Speaker 2: her house till she put him out. Now he went

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Speaker 2: from putting him out to living back at his mama's

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Speaker 2: house for a year. And now you done took him

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Speaker 2: in after two weeks and he lived in your house.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to be a rebound because he ain't

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Speaker 2: got nowhere else to go. He ain't got nowhere to go,

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Speaker 2: He ain't got no house. He always at somebody else's house.

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Speaker 2: Should I trust my intuition, all my creed? None necessary?

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Speaker 2: Drop me in my head. That's the problem with women,

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Speaker 2: y'all won't trust your intuition. God gave you intuition to

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Speaker 2: protect you from us, from the stupidity and the hunting

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Speaker 2: tactics of men. That is what intuition is for. But

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Speaker 2: then when you have intuition, you ignore it. Is he

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Speaker 2: acting like he's so in love with me just to

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Speaker 2: make his ex jealous? Could be? I think he is.

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Speaker 2: But you know why I really think he's so in

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Speaker 2: love with you? Why? Because you got somewhere to stay

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Speaker 2: and he don't. So it's he to stay with you

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Speaker 2: because he can't go back to that girlfriend's house. All

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Speaker 2: he got to go back to his mama's house. Now,

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Speaker 2: mama can cook. But if mama don't fry bacon, you do.

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Speaker 2: I'm so sick of this letter.

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Speaker 1: What you want me?

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Speaker 2: Sure need to tell you what, lady, what you wanted

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Speaker 2: to tell you? You ain't got nothing. He's not a man's man,

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Speaker 2: and he's not a woman's man. You have a mama's boy,

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Speaker 2: and all he do is when things go wrong, go

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Speaker 2: back to his mama's house. He was at of mama's

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Speaker 2: house for a year. Who want to stay with their mama.

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Speaker 1: After the baby? Mama put him on there.

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Speaker 2: You're twenty seven years old, told him I want to

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Speaker 2: stay with their mama? Or shouldn't Nobody listen to me, ladies.

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Speaker 2: If a man does not have the ability to take

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Speaker 2: care of y'all? You and a baby? He can't take

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Speaker 2: care of himself. Now, I got men who fall on

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Speaker 2: hard times. I got that. But let him get back up.

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Speaker 2: Support him to get back up. But you ain't got

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Speaker 2: movie me in now, let him show you some skill

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Speaker 2: set of recovery. If you don't, you're gonna enable him.

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Speaker 2: That's all. So the name of this letter is why

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Speaker 2: he ain't ever got no where to stay. That's the

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Speaker 2: nowhere to stay because all the women in his life

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Speaker 2: provide him a.

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