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Speaker 1: Hire in ease the strawberry LETTA subject can't keep this

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Speaker 1: secret much longer. Dear Stephen Shirley, my fiance and I

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Speaker 1: met in college and we've been together for three years.

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Speaker 1: She is perfect in every way. She has the looks,

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Speaker 1: Last weekend I took her to our usual breakfast spot

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Speaker 1: I have met her mom, dad's siblings and grandparents, and

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Speaker 1: we both had strange looks on our faces. Intrigued by

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Speaker 1: found out that we are, in fact cousins. I cannot

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Speaker 1: believe that I've been sleeping with my cousin. We are

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Speaker 1: not sure what we should do. We are in love

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Speaker 1: but I'm afraid to continue the relationship, especially when our

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Speaker 1: Sooner or later. We need some advice. What should we do? O? God? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is something right here. Uh. I mean, as far

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Speaker 1: But um, you're in love and you plan to get married.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to lose her, and you're afraid to

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Speaker 1: you have kids, that's something to consider. This is this

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Speaker 1: She called her grandmama, asked grandmama, and the grandma replied, yeah,

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Speaker 1: big mama knows and quit talking to her. Old as

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Speaker 1: we all related to everybody on each side of that river. Well,

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Speaker 1: Some cousins that met before you ain't the first one.

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Speaker 1: You ain't gonna stop loving H. You ain't gonna stop

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Speaker 1: But there's one damn show way to find out if

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Speaker 1: She calls Big Mama. Big Mama said, yeah, all us,

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Speaker 1: What you call home? Ask for messed up everything. Now

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Speaker 1: But how the hell everybody on both sides of the river.

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Speaker 1: especially when our family find out we're talking to that

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Speaker 1: is you talking to the damn them people down at

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Speaker 1: They're gonna live down now you're left a little racket

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Speaker 1: Now here's what you could do. You could elope. Don't

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Speaker 1: out of old black people's mouth. You just nash. That's coming.

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Speaker 1: That's coming. You're just nash. So now we're about to

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Speaker 1: my tire bone days on us child, ain't it dough

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Speaker 1: You know you know what it did to me, Clara,

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Speaker 1: But you know where you see them together, you have

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Speaker 1: here we're going now. The reason both of them looks strange,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go alright? Well, Hi, email us or Instagram,

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Speaker 1: what's your thoughts on today's Strawberry letter At Steve Baby,

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Speaker 1: don't look too crazy. You're listening to the Steve Harvey

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