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Speaker 1: Well, guys, fifteen days until the November third election. Go

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Speaker 1: it done. Time now, yeah, get it done. We've all

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Speaker 1: done ours. Yeah, Steve, you're next. M all right, doud yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he said today after work. Sure, I'll tell you it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be one of your damn days. I don't give

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Speaker 1: as you vote. Yeah, don't where about that. I'm vote

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Speaker 1: all right? Here we go. Time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: If you need advice and relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting,

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Speaker 1: and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could

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Speaker 1: be reading your letter just like we're gonna read this

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Speaker 1: one live right here, right now here we go. Let

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Speaker 1: buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.

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Speaker 1: Here it is straw Baby Letter. Thank enough you subject

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Speaker 1: her parents don't think I'm good enough. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty year old man dating a twenty five

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Speaker 1: year old woman. We've been together for four months and

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Speaker 1: things just got ugly between US. She moved to the

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Speaker 1: US three years ago, and her parents live in Africa.

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Speaker 1: She came to the States by herself to attend college,

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Speaker 1: and she's done quite well for herself. She's not like

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Speaker 1: the average twenty five year old. She does not drink, smoke, curse,

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Speaker 1: or party, and she only listens to Christian music. She

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Speaker 1: very lucky to have her. I've been honest with her

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Speaker 1: about my past and the bad choices I've made in women,

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Speaker 1: not finishing college, and my career goals. I'm no longer

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Speaker 1: partying and smoking weed, but I still drink sometimes. My

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Speaker 1: stable as I would like to be. She's very close

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Speaker 1: to her parents and she tells them everything. When she

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Speaker 1: told them about me, she said, they immediately decided I'm

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Speaker 1: not good enough for her. That had been bothering me

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Speaker 1: so recently. When she was facetiming with her parents, I

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Speaker 1: and he did not speak back. Instead, he told me

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Speaker 1: that he's disappointed, and how I chose to present myself

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Speaker 1: to him and his wife for the first time. He said,

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Speaker 1: it's obvious that I make bad decisions a lot, so

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Speaker 1: he did not want me dating his daughter. After the call,

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Speaker 1: she cried and said she cannot go against her parents' wishes,

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Speaker 1: so we could only be friends. She asked if I

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Speaker 1: could be patient until she can change her parents' minds.

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Speaker 1: Should I remain friendly with her and see what happens,

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Speaker 1: or should I respect her parents' wishes. Well, honestly, I

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Speaker 1: think the decision has already been made. I mean, she's

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Speaker 1: not going against her parents' wishes. So say hello to

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Speaker 1: your little friend right now. That's what she is. Right now.

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Speaker 1: You guys can only be friends. But I do like

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know she's out of your league

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Speaker 1: and that you're very lucky to have her. It depends

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Speaker 1: obviously something she likes about you, or she wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: you know there's culturally a difference here. You know, this

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Speaker 1: all of that. They're very much a part of her decisions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she's grown, she's twenty five, but you're not just dating her.

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Speaker 1: Her family has a say and she's listening to them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you got to say about every parent.

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Speaker 1: This about every parent. They always want the best for

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Speaker 1: She's your baby girl. They have high expectations and you

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Speaker 1: have to respect that. You say, your career is just

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Speaker 1: like to. Okay, that's fair, that can be changed. The

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Speaker 1: First impressions are very important. Now you're going to have

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Speaker 1: It means you're going to have to work really hard

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Speaker 1: Let me say this first. I've been honest with her

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Speaker 1: about your pass and bad choices you made and women

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Speaker 1: you ain't finished college, your career goals. Now you ain't

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Speaker 1: career is just talk taking off. Now, with all that said,

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Speaker 1: hang on, we'll get part two of your response coming

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Speaker 1: up at twenty three minutes after the hour. My Strawberry

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Speaker 1: good enough. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: Subject her parents don't think I'm good enough. Thirty ye

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Speaker 1: She don't party, smoke, drink because she just listened to

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Speaker 1: You know, he lucky to have her, but due to

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Speaker 1: telling what else he leaving out this letter, but he

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Speaker 1: you're lucky to have him. But with all this stuff

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Speaker 1: what career is taken off? You know? So that's the question.

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Speaker 1: So my question is how did you get her in

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Speaker 1: the first place? What did you say? See somewhere in

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Speaker 1: you get to check. That's out your lead. You don't

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Speaker 1: world you say, Hey, look, I made some mistakes out

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Speaker 1: of here and a lot of women. I'm dropped out

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Speaker 1: Get it on track? You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not what you said. So you said something to

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Speaker 1: it says that it clearly says you're not good enough

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Speaker 1: Like Shirley said, everybody wants the best for their children.

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Speaker 1: So you know they told you that, Dan, you ain't

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Speaker 1: Absolutely correct. See, y'all, young ass people live in this

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Speaker 1: when he told her when she told him all that, they? Hell?

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Speaker 1: So we could only be friends. That's the way they

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Speaker 1: That's her father, So we could only be friends. She

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Speaker 1: This decision she makes. She ain't saying I'm gonna see

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Speaker 1: You ain't gonna get another one like this. I'd hang

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Speaker 1: do is apologize to her father. You're absolutely correct. I

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