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Speaker 1: here needs the Strawberry letter. Subject, I'm in love, but

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Speaker 1: not with my husband. Here Stephen Shirley. I am a

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Speaker 1: He says he is in love with his wife, yet

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Speaker 1: Whenever he posts pictures on social media of him and

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Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing is wrong, but now I

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Speaker 1: So you know you're in somewhat of a quandary here

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Speaker 1: because you say you love him. I say that if

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Speaker 1: you're unhappy in your marriage, get some therapy, get some

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Speaker 1: back and him behind his wife's back. That doesn't help anything.

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Speaker 1: I know you you wanna what, nephew? Are you squirming

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Speaker 1: So what do you guys? You just destined to sneak

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Speaker 1: and that's noble and everything, but you gotta have some

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Speaker 1: if your marriage is not making you happy, you gotta

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Speaker 1: do something about that. First of all, I say, get

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Speaker 1: some counseling, all right, there you go, Steve, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's nice, and some counselor that ain't worth it, Dawn,

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Speaker 1: and tell you that right now, we're gonna skip over that.

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Speaker 1: This mother don't says nothing by no damn counselor. This

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Speaker 1: thirty year old mother. Here's the subject. I'm in love,

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Speaker 1: but not with my husband. Now that's the only time

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Speaker 1: I hear you say the word love in this letter.

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Speaker 1: I got must point this out. Thirty ye old mother too,

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Speaker 1: before that. You've never had any other relationship. You know,

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Speaker 1: met this man online y'all started talking about the sports.

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Speaker 1: Then you saw him. He was attracted to him. Y'all

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Speaker 1: co worker, Hello, this just a dude offline. So y'all

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Speaker 1: I started having strong feeling for him, and it grew

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Speaker 1: see y'all out of sports talk. See that older that ald?

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Speaker 1: We like the same team? How much liking the same

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Speaker 1: Nobody talking about your team every damn date. The Browns

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Speaker 1: you be in love? Because the show ain't talking about sports, Lebron, Lebron.

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Speaker 1: Most people been in love with me. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: And that's what I meant this dude. So I started

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Speaker 1: I've been to understand something about men. Men can be

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Speaker 1: because I liked him so much. What not a minute

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Speaker 1: much because of what he do. It ain't just a

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Speaker 1: in case you wonder I cannot stand my husband. Mm hmm,

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Speaker 1: I know you can't stand in your husband is you're

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Speaker 1: sports now. That's why we were just sports talking. Throw

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Speaker 1: just go long. We just talk to sports. Now go long.

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Speaker 1: It's third and long again. Long. He's who you need

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Speaker 1: sitting here this. I can't believe we fell in love

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Speaker 1: Who's the tight end? Alright, Shirley, you know yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: rough in the past. Better quit doing that to me,

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Speaker 1: so now after y'all to talk sports and had sickly,

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Speaker 1: of life's less for pleasures? Who in here ain't been tempted?

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Speaker 1: Who in here? I ain't wanted somebody that was yours?

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Speaker 1: Who ain't looked over there and wish they was over there?

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Speaker 1: Widow man, you in here ain't had something a cross

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Speaker 1: what you think? How you wanted making mine? Give me

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Speaker 1: some I like it? Like that touched me again? Who?

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