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Speaker 1: Let's go. We got it all right. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Subject drama. Okay, Dear Stephen Shirley, what should I do?

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Speaker 1: I go with this boy for three years and my

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Speaker 1: parents don't like him. Look, I'm mad as heck about

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Speaker 1: how my mom gonna bleach our clothes and throw them

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Speaker 1: outside two days ago when we came from our date. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she was about to put them yeah, okay, she was

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Speaker 1: about to put them on fire. I jumped out the

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Speaker 1: car and put the water hole straight on her. Now

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Speaker 1: we here bleached. Now we wear bleached clothes until I

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Speaker 1: go shopping tomorrow. She mad because everyone sweared they saw

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Speaker 1: him with other girls. But it's a lie. I know

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Speaker 1: it is. We just got married last year. Why cheat

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Speaker 1: when you get married? Okay, let me read that line again,

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Speaker 1: because it's unbelievable. We just got married last year. White

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Speaker 1: cheat when you get married. That's only for when you're unmarried.

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Speaker 1: He loved me, but my family don't see that. And

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Speaker 1: oh I gotta honor and a step daughter too, Just

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Speaker 1: to put that out the way. Now, four days later,

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Speaker 1: I get a call of his ex Monica. So I

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Speaker 1: answered the phone, like, who is she? Like? Who is

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Speaker 1: she talking about? Something? Oh is Michael there? I said,

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Speaker 1: who is this? She hung up? So I went to

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Speaker 1: him and asked who it was, and he said his

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Speaker 1: step mom from Opelaka, Miami. That it's crazy. I heard

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Speaker 1: about her. I heard about her, and now it has

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Speaker 1: to be true. Now everyone in my family think I'm dumb?

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Speaker 1: How do I, baby? How do I let them know

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Speaker 1: he ain't cheating? Okay? What the what did you just say?

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Speaker 1: All right? I do, Stephen Shirley? What should I do? Well?

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Speaker 1: I mean you asked for advice, but my question to

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Speaker 1: you is will you really listen to it? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you see him to have your own ideas about marriage?

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Speaker 1: Who told you that people don't cheat when they're married?

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Speaker 1: I mean, of course you're not supposed to. That's the

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Speaker 1: ideal situation, and cheating is only for people when you're unmarried.

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Speaker 1: I mean, where do you get these ideas from um

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Speaker 1: about marriage? I don't understand your husband's lying, just out

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Speaker 1: and outlying. UM. And you confused me when you said

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Speaker 1: you go with this boy, and now you're sitting you

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Speaker 1: went on a date, and now you're saying you got

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Speaker 1: married last year. It's a confusing letter. Um. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I really don't know what to tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm confused myself. Steve helped me with this one. Please help.

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Speaker 1: She's crazy. The end of the letter usually explains it

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna say. Now. Everyone in my family think

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Speaker 1: I'm dumb. It it well, we do too. I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to say that. Me, Shirley and everybody that heard

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Speaker 1: this letter, we feel just like your family. And if

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Speaker 1: and if I could show people this letter, if you

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Speaker 1: could just go online, let's see how it's written. It

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Speaker 1: was written basically like, there ain't a capital letter in

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Speaker 1: this letter, No damn where except the word dear. Is

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Speaker 1: there a period? Dear Steve? And then after that, ain't

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Speaker 1: no more capital letters? Ain'tybody naming capital? The punctuations is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Miami is not in capital It ain't in capital letters.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in my family think I'm dumb, think t H

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Speaker 1: I n K, I'm dumb? What about this ex Monica?

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Speaker 1: Her name is We We all feel this way? Um

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Speaker 1: this letter crazy? This girl, she got so many problems

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Speaker 1: in this letter. First of all, just let me go

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Speaker 1: down the list of things that's wrong. Number one, you

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Speaker 1: married a boy. Number two, y'all need to move out

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Speaker 1: of your mama's house because I thought you was dating

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Speaker 1: a boy. But you explain it so crazy. Now you're married,

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Speaker 1: you need to get out your mama house. If you

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Speaker 1: are married. Number three, I think your penmanship requires that

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Speaker 1: you go back to school at least get a G

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Speaker 1: E D. Your fourth problem is all your clothes can

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Speaker 1: fit into one washing machine. That's disturbing clothes right now

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Speaker 1: because all the all y'all clothes got bleached on him,

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Speaker 1: all of yours, and he is then fit into this

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Speaker 1: washing machine. That's the other problem. Then you get a

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Speaker 1: call from his ex. You say, I get a first,

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Speaker 1: let me read how to letter read? I can't. I

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Speaker 1: can't even start that because some more crazinesses struggle. My

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Speaker 1: he loves me, but my family don't see that. Oh

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Speaker 1: I got a daughter and a step daughter to just

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Speaker 1: to put that out the way. Nah, four days later,

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Speaker 1: where did this come from? But where did where did

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Speaker 1: you choose come from? Just get this out, did you say?

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Speaker 1: And now four days later I get a call of

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Speaker 1: his ex Monica. Ain't none of this capitalize? So Monica

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Speaker 1: is like a salad or something. I get a call

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Speaker 1: from his ex Monica. So I answered the phone, like

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Speaker 1: who is she talking about something? Oh? Is Mica there?

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Speaker 1: I said, who is this? She hung up? Okay, his

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Speaker 1: ex call named Monica. You go to him and you

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Speaker 1: asked him about it. He say it's his step mama

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Speaker 1: from Opah. Locker, my Ammy, you need to pick your

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Speaker 1: stupid behind a map up and just see where that

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Speaker 1: is located, because that's out. What is open locker? My Emmy,

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Speaker 1: My Emmy is in Florida already. Now, let's that's the

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Speaker 1: name of a housing project. I really think heat him

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Speaker 1: threw you for a loop. But back to the whole

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Speaker 1: crux of the letter. Everyone in my family think I'm dumb.

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Speaker 1: I really don't see how they didn't come to any

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Speaker 1: other conclusion, baby, because right now, damn it, I'm with

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Speaker 1: the family you need. I didn't want to say that. No, no,

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Speaker 1: you need a divorce. You need somebody take them kids, man,

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Speaker 1: give your kids your mamma. Um, you and that boy

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Speaker 1: go somewhere and started by y'all, damn self Hill, all right,

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Speaker 1: as usual, we gotta get out of your email or Instagram.

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Speaker 1: That's your thoughts on today's strawberry letter at my girl,

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Speaker 1: surely and please don't forget this Thursday Strawberry letter. After

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