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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now. Okay, bug, love and

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Speaker 1: hold on tight. We got it for you here. It

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Speaker 1: is a strawberry letter, all right. Who was that? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. The cat is out of the bag.

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Speaker 1: As the subject, Dear Stephen Shirley, I am a fifty

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Speaker 1: five year old, married, successful woman sleeping with my son's

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Speaker 1: best friend. He and my son have been the best

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Speaker 1: of friend since the second grade and now they're both

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Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. The best friend, who will call David,

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Speaker 1: has been working with me for a year as my accountant.

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Speaker 1: I let the rest of my employees work from home

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Speaker 1: during COVID nineteen, but David came into the office to

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Speaker 1: complete our annual taxes and that's when it's started. He

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Speaker 1: came on to me one day and it was very abrupt,

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Speaker 1: but I like how he handled the situation. He basically

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Speaker 1: off clothes came next. I can't say that I didn't

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Speaker 1: want it. He told me that he was tired of

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Speaker 1: me flirting with him, so it was time to give

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Speaker 1: me what I wanted. He's been giving it to me

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Speaker 1: since April, and now that my other employees are back

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Speaker 1: for the day. David and my son still hang out,

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Speaker 1: and recently David made a big mistake and let the

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Speaker 1: David offered to pay the tab, and he mistakenly pulled

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Speaker 1: asked David about it. David said it was a corporate card,

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Speaker 1: They both had had too much to drink, so David

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Speaker 1: got fed up and yelled, I'm banging your mama. God,

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Speaker 1: my son, you heard me. My son confronted me and

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Speaker 1: I denied it, but David had told him about the

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Speaker 1: I can't look at my son in the eyes, and

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Speaker 1: I cannot stop having sex with David. My son would

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Speaker 1: want to upset him. Should I be honest with my son? What?

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Speaker 1: This letter is crazy? And I just gotta say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I need to get a few things straight. Here are

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Speaker 1: you asking us? Should you be honest with your son

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Speaker 1: about what he already knows? He already knows you're banging him?

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Speaker 1: You guys, are he already knows this. He told him

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Speaker 1: having sex. Okay, your son knows, He definitely knows. So

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Speaker 1: what is being honest and telling him going to do? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: his mama, Yes, thank you, nephew. I'll tell you. It's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna make him angrier. It's gonna cause him to

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Speaker 1: go probably beat down his friends since he's known since

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Speaker 1: second grade. I just how unsmart of you to give

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Speaker 1: your employee, your accountant, your credit card for personal stuff

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Speaker 1: and what does he works for you? Doesn't he have

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Speaker 1: his own money? And how stupid of him to use

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Speaker 1: it while he was out with with your son. This

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Speaker 1: has to have your son really, really mad. He has

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Speaker 1: this is either changed or broken up their relationship or

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Speaker 1: it's going to break up their friendship. Even though you

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Speaker 1: And that's why this is more than just you being

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Speaker 1: you know, your mother and son relationship here, it changes

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Speaker 1: his relationship with his best friend. I hope you're right

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Speaker 1: about him telling your husband or not telling your husband

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Speaker 1: because your husband is sick. I think the best thing

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Speaker 1: you can do is get your credit card back, and

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Speaker 1: even though you say you can't stop having sex with David,

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Speaker 1: your mother's son relationship. And thank god that your son

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Speaker 1: with my son's best for you be damn. Everybody's saying

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Speaker 1: that and Nate twenty seven, Why Letta, The subject of

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Speaker 1: this letter is the cat is out the bag. This

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Speaker 1: way bigger than the cat. My line is a loose

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Speaker 1: name this damn letter. But the cat is out the bag.

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Speaker 1: Ain't it hit? The pit ball is locked jalled on

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Speaker 1: my ass. We can find we need first, Let's rename

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Speaker 1: the damn letter. The pit ball is locked jawlled on

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Speaker 1: my ass, Uncle Larry and sugar honey iced teeth in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the flow. We can change this letter

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Speaker 1: to a lot of things. But the cat out out

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Speaker 1: the bag is a little bit too light. All right,

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Speaker 1: you're sleeping with your son's best friend. Day twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Your son's friend, uh works as an accountant. Now all

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Speaker 1: your employees is working home. But David, Now we say

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Speaker 1: the best friend who we are called David. The name

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Speaker 1: David is important, and because David came into the office

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Speaker 1: to complete an Now the reason she chose to call

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Speaker 1: him David because David as in who slay the giant,

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Speaker 1: oh Goliath. Okay, that's why she want to go with David.

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Speaker 1: She trying to keep it biblical, which you'll sin himself.

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Speaker 1: David came into the office to complete diannual taxes, and

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Speaker 1: that's when it started. He came on to me one

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Speaker 1: day and it was very abrupt. It ain't come out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, did she say. But I like how he

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Speaker 1: handled this situation. What what what situation? See if it

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Speaker 1: happened abruptly, what situation? Hold on, See we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: prosse response coming up at twenty three minutes after the

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Speaker 1: Cat is out of the Bag. Right after this. You're

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Speaker 1: listening all right on Steve Let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: Subject the cat is out of the bag, or as

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Speaker 1: you said, the pit the pit bull has locked all

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Speaker 1: on my ass. Yeah, here's another title, The bull is

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Speaker 1: in the China shop and boys, he pissed. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of titles, but the cut out the bag And

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Speaker 1: fifty five year old, married, successful woman is sleeping with

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Speaker 1: her son's best friend, David friend since the second grade.

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Speaker 1: Now both I'm twenty seven. The best friend who will

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Speaker 1: call David. She wants to call him David because, ain't

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Speaker 1: that's the dude in the Bible that slay the giant

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Speaker 1: and has been working for you for years, your accountant

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Speaker 1: and then the rest of the employees worked for home

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Speaker 1: doing COVID. David came into the office to complete the

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Speaker 1: annual taxes and that's when it started. She said. He

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Speaker 1: came on to me one day and it was very abrupt. Now,

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Speaker 1: listen to me. Ain't no young ass dude Finn to

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Speaker 1: me led this way. Yes, he got to have been

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Speaker 1: thinking something was going on. You have been talking about,

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Speaker 1: Oh how handsome you look today? Oh you just look

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Speaker 1: at you. David, dude grew up into be quite some

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Speaker 1: young man. See this depart You left out the letter

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Speaker 1: because this boy ain't just do this all of a sudden. Well,

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Speaker 1: she said he was flirting with her. He said he was.

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Speaker 1: She I noticed, But Sureley, this is what causes. So

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is how she wrote the letter. He

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Speaker 1: came on me one day and it was abruptly and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden. I like the way he

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Speaker 1: handled this situation because you've been thinking about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: ripping your clothes off, sloppy kids in and I can't

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Speaker 1: say I ain't want it. He told me he was

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Speaker 1: tired of me flirting with him because you have huh,

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Speaker 1: you've been leading this boy on. He tired of you

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Speaker 1: flirting when this time he gave you what he wanted

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Speaker 1: and he's been giving it to you since April. Now

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Speaker 1: the other employees is back at work, and you try

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Speaker 1: to avoid David and to everybody leave for the day.

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Speaker 1: Every day, David and my son still hang out, and

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Speaker 1: recently David made a big mistake. Okay, now this is

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Speaker 1: where the young boy stuff come in. That because he young,

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Speaker 1: we go. They're all drinking and David, your little love

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Speaker 1: a boy, offered to pay the tab, and he mistakenly

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Speaker 1: pulled out her credit card that she had been letting

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Speaker 1: him use to go shopping and for personalizing. Your son

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Speaker 1: saw it and asked David about it. David said it

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Speaker 1: was a corporate card, but your son accused David a

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Speaker 1: stealing it from you. They had both had too much

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Speaker 1: to drink, so David got fed up and yelled out,

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Speaker 1: I'm banging your mama. The next word she says is

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Speaker 1: my son confronted me and I did not wait. There's

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Speaker 1: so much missing in this letter right now, this, I'm

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Speaker 1: bringing your mama. We now have to change the letter

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Speaker 1: from there as a mountain lion in the room. We

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Speaker 1: have to change the letter from it's a pit bull

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Speaker 1: jawed on my ass. We have to change the letter

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Speaker 1: from there as a bull in the China shopping boys.

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Speaker 1: He pissed till can you all help me? My son

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Speaker 1: is on death row because there is no weight in

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Speaker 1: real life. A dude can yell out because I'm bringing

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Speaker 1: your mama. And then your son confronted you. What I

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Speaker 1: don't know how this letter ain't about a ass whipping

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Speaker 1: hospital visits whose lie elbow? As an employer? Do edge hr?

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Speaker 1: Am I responsible for his hospital bills? Is man slaughter

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Speaker 1: an option? If he? Where's all this setting the letter?

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Speaker 1: So then your son confronted you and you denied it.

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Speaker 1: But David had told him that David the little drunk

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Speaker 1: as boy told him about the tattoo on my lower back.

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Speaker 1: She says, So my lies don't work. I can't look

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Speaker 1: Should I be honest with my son? That, Shirley says,

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Speaker 1: your son already knows well, not really see this is

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Speaker 1: where Shirley, men and women defer. Listen to me. Lady, lie, Lie, Lie,

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Speaker 1: Lie Lie. Don't you dare admit to this? Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: saw the tattoo on your back because you are a

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Speaker 1: and a couple people noticed the tattoo. That's how he

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Speaker 1: saw the tattoo. Never admit to this, Yes, you don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't admit to your grave. Yeah, just keep lying.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, Sherley, What good is the

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Speaker 1: truth gonna do? Well? Help me with that part. No, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say she should be honest. I don't think

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Speaker 1: what she said. Should I be honest? Now? Hell? Now

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Speaker 1: continue to lie? Now, Sherley did say you need to

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Speaker 1: stop sleeping with this little boy that's gonna ruin your life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I did. Yeah, And give him, get your credit

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Speaker 1: card back and move on. Skip why cho boy whipping

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Speaker 1: his ass? You back to the all right post? Your

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