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Speaker 1: and Shirley. Currently, I am separated and over forty. Can't

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Speaker 1: have any children main reason for my divorce. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: met a man, Mr. Man, who was also separated, and

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Speaker 1: we became very close. It was great. After a year,

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Speaker 1: this summer, I thought Mr Man and I would be together. Well,

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Speaker 1: Mr Mann told me that he was going to New

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Speaker 1: what about me? He said, I am a beautiful woman,

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Speaker 1: I cry at the drop of a dime. Number two,

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Speaker 1: real women are a mystery. Once that's gone, nothing is left.

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Speaker 1: I'm an open book. Number three the big one I

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Speaker 1: my brown liquor song Anita Baker no more tears, and

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Speaker 1: cried myself to sleep. I should have known better and

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Speaker 1: I am not perfect. Now. I am out of two

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Speaker 1: But you have to do your part. You know, you

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Speaker 1: sleeping with him right away. That's exactly what happened. That's

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Speaker 1: to tell this man everything. He's not even your husband, um,

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Speaker 1: you gotta learn from um from your relationship so this

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Speaker 1: go this route, adoption is always an option. It definitely

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Speaker 1: is always an option. You know, think about that in

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Speaker 1: your next relationship. But I don't advise you to even

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Speaker 1: get in a next relationship, a new relationship until you

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Speaker 1: know you learn from this particular one so you won't

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Speaker 1: settle uh anymore? Okay, and make these men accountable, you know,

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Speaker 1: talk about their plans, find out what he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, why should that have even been a surprise

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Speaker 1: someone else? Steve, This letter is classic. It's classic, classic

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Speaker 1: example of how women get involved and not know upfront

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Speaker 1: Who didn't notice in the beginning? How was this not

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Speaker 1: Mr Man was gonna be together before you broke off

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Speaker 1: ain't being push You ain't gonna run no man off.

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Speaker 1: You can't run us off. We are scary. We won't you.

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Speaker 1: Who would you have married if you didn't marry your wife?

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Speaker 1: I would have married this girl in New Jersey. A

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, if I ever get out of this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going back and get hard. You could have found

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Speaker 1: what about me? What about you? Is too late? He

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Speaker 1: every right to ask up front, see what about you

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Speaker 1: ask what about you? This ain't about you no more.

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Speaker 1: This about him and the woman in New Jersey. Now

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Speaker 1: he got his divorce, he gone, He going back to

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Speaker 1: who we should have married in the first place. You

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Speaker 1: not your plans. You have every right to know of

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Speaker 1: a man's plans. You especially have the right to know, ladies,

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Speaker 1: if you are not in his plans. There are ways

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Speaker 1: He says, he's too emotionally cried to drop down. Real

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Speaker 1: you what me and mean by that, and I'm an

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what that means to when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Okay, the man told me that he was

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Speaker 1: had to ask, what about me? He said, I'm a

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Speaker 1: beautiful woman, but I had three problems. Let's go over

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Speaker 1: these problems, ladies. Number one, I am too emotional. I

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Speaker 1: cry at the drop of a dime. Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: If a man don't love you and don't have emotional

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Speaker 1: man don't, he's not buying into drama. Tears to a

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Speaker 1: you and he sees you crying, he has to fix something.

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Speaker 1: We got to spring into action and do something. Since

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's the only reason we like to talk

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Speaker 1: I'm not in love with you and I ain't really

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Speaker 1: are is some cookie. Secondly, real women are mystery. Once

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Speaker 1: that is gone, nothing is left. He told you that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what that means. That means you told everything

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Speaker 1: y'all go about this the wrong way, y'all. Y'all think

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Speaker 1: when you give us information, we're taking this information to

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Speaker 1: information because we can use it in our quest. Third,

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Speaker 1: the big one, I should have not she said, I

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Speaker 1: with the married man, I miss all this, all the

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Speaker 1: the big one is I'm gonna give you, is that

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Speaker 1: what he says to him, You had no standards. That's

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Speaker 1: all that says to a man. You had had no standards.

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Speaker 1: Now you won't do what Now you wanna start practicing

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Speaker 1: today's Strawberry letter. At my girl? Surely? Now, come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: introduce that girl from the top. Ladies and gentlemen, boys

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