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Speaker 1: Let's get it up. Hold on tight, we got it

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Speaker 1: for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter all right,

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Speaker 1: subject when row playing goes too far. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I am in my early twenties and I'm dating a

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Speaker 1: guy that I've known since high school. He was my

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Speaker 1: He had a longtime girlfriend and they broke up last year,

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Speaker 1: was as good as I thought it would be. Everything

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Speaker 1: about him was pretty normal until recently when I noticed

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Speaker 1: he had a couple of furry animal costumes in his closet.

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Speaker 1: We were lying in his bed talking and I noticed them,

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Speaker 1: so I jokingly asked if they were some old Halloween costumes.

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Speaker 1: He said no and jumped out of bed to show

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Speaker 1: the costumes to me. He said that the dog costume

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Speaker 1: Then he asked me if he could try it out

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Speaker 1: him know, right then I went along with it, and

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Speaker 1: it was by far the weirdest thing I have ever done,

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Speaker 1: and I was just glad that he did not start

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Speaker 1: barking during while we were doing it. Afterwards, it was

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Speaker 1: very awkward, so I just turned over and went to sleep.

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Speaker 1: That was a few nights ago, and we have not

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Speaker 1: discussed this incident at all. I do like him, but

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Speaker 1: this has shattered the dreamy image I've had of him

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Speaker 1: for all these years. I'm not into this kind of weird,

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Speaker 1: to ask him if he plans to keep putting on

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Speaker 1: costumes for sex, or if it if it was just

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Speaker 1: a one time thing to see if I'd like it,

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Speaker 1: or should I just leave them now and find a

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Speaker 1: man that's not crazy? Please help. I told you we've

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Speaker 1: never had a letter like this, Okay, I gotta tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of a thing. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: a thing, the whole furry costume thing. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: where where in certain circles and they're called furries and

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Speaker 1: furry circles they have like fury. Yeah, it's not I

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Speaker 1: didn't say it was a black thing. I didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: They have furry conventions, they have furry parties, all of

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. You've been to some of these parts? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not into this. Yeah, I've heard about things like this.

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Speaker 1: I just have I don't know, on YouTube. You heard

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Speaker 1: about it on YouTube. I've heard about this, sure, And

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Speaker 1: you'll just no, no, no, you type that in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta tap it in because I've heard about him before. Yeah, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll send it. I'm gonna let you see it right now.

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Speaker 1: It's called fury, they're called furries. But I just can't

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Speaker 1: help to laugh at that. Help but laugh at this

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Speaker 1: because the visual of him barking and a dog costume

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Speaker 1: is just funny. I'm sorry, it's just funny. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a furry. I don't think anyone on the show is

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Speaker 1: a furry. Uh, but it seems strange, but I don't know. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: pretty harmless, right, That's all he does is put on

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not harming you or any in any way,

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Speaker 1: but that's all he did. You guys haven't talked about it.

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Speaker 1: You do have to talk about this at some point

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Speaker 1: and maybe he'll open up to you. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't like it, it's okay not to

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Speaker 1: like it. If you're not comfortable, you have to let

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Speaker 1: what do this? You guys have only been together for

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Speaker 1: five months, so I mean, you know, hey, if you

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Speaker 1: and move on. If you're not interested in this, it

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Speaker 1: was he was okay up until this point. And if

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Speaker 1: it's a thing with you, it's a thing, it's okay

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Speaker 1: to let him know that you don't like it. Steve,

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Speaker 1: Steve Shell, I don't even know what to Hey, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let somebody see me some pictures of fairies. I got that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they dress up in I'm not like a fetish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: going with this self? First we got dog costumes inn

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Speaker 1: where we're gonna in. We're gonna end up with a

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Speaker 1: Because this type of stuff has to graduate. Now. If

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Speaker 1: these costumes, where we going with this now? As we're

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Speaker 1: really gonna be outside killing deal, wrapping up in real

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Speaker 1: deer skin? Where we're going high school? Sweetheart? She had

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Speaker 1: a crush on this man. He was dating this girl.

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Speaker 1: They broke up. She wanted to see if he was interested.

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Speaker 1: a soul. Why must I feel like that? Why must

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Speaker 1: I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog in me?

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Speaker 1: Nothing but the dog. This is a story about a dog,

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Speaker 1: famous dog dog, Tommy Dog. Excuse me anyway, when you

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Speaker 1: see this ain't no one time stop because he got

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Speaker 1: more than one suit hanging in He got a few.

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Speaker 1: And there ain't costumes, there is out fits. You jokingly

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Speaker 1: the dog costumes in favorite. He loved the wad doing sex. Boy,

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Speaker 1: you should have got your ass about that bed right there,

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Speaker 1: put your damn clothes home, took your ass. It was

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Speaker 1: all good. Everything you thought it was good? Then everything

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Speaker 1: up in here laying in bed one night talking laughing,

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Speaker 1: Hell no, jumped out of the the bed and showed him

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Speaker 1: to me. He said that the dog costume was his favorite,

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Speaker 1: and he loves the wearing doing sex. Hey, what what

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Speaker 1: like whearing what the dog outfit? You think? You've come

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Speaker 1: All that fir whore you was in there. I know

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Speaker 1: by far the weirdest thing I've ever done, and I

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Speaker 1: nights ago, and we ain't disgusted at all. I do

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Speaker 1: like him, but this is shattered the dreamy energy I

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Speaker 1: what he was, girl. He got way more. There's a

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Speaker 1: dog suiting there, a monkey suiting there. Yeah, he gonna

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Speaker 1: the age tomorrow. Next week. They ain't gonna be Keen Coomb. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they ain't gonna come out then. You really are gonna

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Speaker 1: like when he when he come out there with the

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Speaker 1: understanding he got he got feathery too. He gonna be

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Speaker 1: Donald dug one day. I don't know what to say

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Speaker 1: to this say. This letter to me is ridiculous. I

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Speaker 1: think it's crazy. I don't have no suggestions for you.

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Speaker 1: If you go to a party, how do you know

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Speaker 1: who under that? You just first, it's not good. You

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Speaker 1: ain't he supposed to be attracted the person attracted the

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Speaker 1: fur right, But you know what, I just think if

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Speaker 1: she should use her voice. If you're not into this

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Speaker 1: and that's not the guy for you, just you know,

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Speaker 1: get out into stuff for you. Right. He liked to

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Speaker 1: wear suits. I see, I'm a neck it man myself, right,

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Speaker 1: I've done some of my greatest moments have been naked.

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Speaker 1: Nothing beast naked. I don't even want to sock on.

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Speaker 1: little creasey is. Well, I can get that other damn

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Speaker 1: don't want nothing in the way. I need my toes, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: need my toes, No, because I need my toes. My

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Speaker 1: One of my toes is out. But it's dark and

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Speaker 1: hill and somebody coming here with this suit though. What happened? Now, Well,

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Speaker 1: he is, and I don't know who I hear him

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Speaker 1: and I just said I do my best work naked.

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Speaker 1: Now I see this first suit in him, I'll probably

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Speaker 1: something trying to eat out here now, bigfoot in Hill? Yeah, kid, No,

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Speaker 1: it's horror. I don't even like this letter. And surely's

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Speaker 1: like leave him. Yeah, if you're not into it, just yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to stay around, stick around. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to do that. Use your voice. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't like the suits, he gonna go find

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Speaker 1: somebody who do. Even if y'all get together. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: it's a show on Viceland about the people to get

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Speaker 1: get this got fetishes like that and fetishes is real?

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Speaker 1: Ain't you spitting fur at three pot a later? Ain't

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Speaker 1: you spitting out let out here? But it is a

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Speaker 1: show guys on Viceland called Furies Fandom not fetish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: surely you saw that. Yeah, it ain't nobody for the washing.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the show, but I knew I saw

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Speaker 1: something about furries doing the thing. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I'm white, ice Land, TV Land or no other

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Speaker 1: day leg I don't give They just like jaguars. And

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even wear that movie. He was telling me

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Speaker 1: about the other day Shirley, which one what's the name

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Speaker 1: of that movie where the man slept with everybody? It's

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Speaker 1: serious and that I don't get it may be serious,

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Speaker 1: but I don't see how it happened. Yeah, well he

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Speaker 1: mother and the father. Yeah, it's called abducted in plain sight.

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Speaker 1: And uh it's a true story. And he was to

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Speaker 1: this guy was a master manipulator. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 1: how he did it to that family. It's no way,

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Speaker 1: not really, I don't understand. Back to the Okay, yeah, later,

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Speaker 1: nobody's starting this little boy with this damn monkey suit

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Speaker 1: on the dog suit, dog suit, monkey suit, cheetah suit.

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Speaker 1: What do you want? You can't come in the bedroom

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Speaker 1: with a damn football suit on't for me? Let long

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Speaker 1: damn monkey suit. Yeah she just got them. Yeah if

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Speaker 1: got all that much day. Yeah, so it's called yeah furries.

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Speaker 1: Can't be talking about boys. Man, Tigger tried to push

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Speaker 1: Man's who are you seeing now? Donald can't say I

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Speaker 1: block out with one? Yeah? Like who you get with books? Bunny?

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