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Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now, bug and hold

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Speaker 1: on tight. Here it is Strawberry letter. Subject should I

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Speaker 1: tell him to stay with his wife? Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm fifty six years old and I'm dating a sixty

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Speaker 1: one year old man that is separated from his wife.

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Speaker 1: He has been pursuing me for a while and when

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Speaker 1: he got a legal separation and moved out. We started dating.

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Speaker 1: That was four years ago, and our relationship isn't what

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Speaker 1: it used to be because his divorce has taken a

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Speaker 1: has to watch his spending. He keeps saying that he

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Speaker 1: loves me because I'm a real ride or die type woman,

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Speaker 1: and he's grateful for me. But what he really doesn't

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Speaker 1: because I am not willing to invest any more time

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Speaker 1: his feet. I'm interested in a more stable situation now

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Speaker 1: that I'm older. I love him dearly, but I don't

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Speaker 1: doing it to be with me. I've been thinking wighs

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Speaker 1: to break it to him? Should I tell him to

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Speaker 1: stay with his wife? Okay, I think you left a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff out of this letter. You kind of

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Speaker 1: go from you know, he's been pursuing you and you know,

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Speaker 1: to dating you, and now you don't want to build

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Speaker 1: So I'm confused here. What is it that you really want?

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Speaker 1: What is it? I don't think you're being honest. I

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Speaker 1: just don't. I don't think you're being honest. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the letter has anything to do really with what

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Speaker 1: you're saying it has to do with I think that

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Speaker 1: really is. It is the money, isn't it? It is

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Speaker 1: the Monty. I just think your whole letter is filled

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Speaker 1: three hundred K twelve k, which of course means thousands.

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Speaker 1: Money money, money, That's what it sounds like you're about.

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Speaker 1: You talk about property. You know, his rental, property finances, condo's,

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Speaker 1: spousal support. It's all through your letter. He can't afford

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Speaker 1: all of that. So just why don't you just put

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Speaker 1: this guy out of his misery and go on and

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Speaker 1: break it off with him now, because once he divorces

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Speaker 1: his wife, you're not gonna want to be with him

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Speaker 1: because the money is running out. Just say what it is, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all it is, Shirley. You hit it

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Speaker 1: this letter too. You know fifty six, he's sixty one,

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Speaker 1: separated from a wife. He had been pursuing me for

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Speaker 1: So you waited, you miss money hungry, miss concerned, But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hear well, y'all was kicking it before. That's

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Speaker 1: why he can't hang on in nothing. Because see, let

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Speaker 1: Which is a little over three hundred k. The wife

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Speaker 1: part of the reason for the divorce, if you ask me.

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but this letter has, like Shirley says,

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hours. Subject of today's Strawberry Letters, Should

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, Let's recap today's Strawberry Letters. Subject? Should

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Speaker 1: don't think that's true, but okay, the four years ago

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Speaker 1: is taking a toll on him. Paid over twelve thousands

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Speaker 1: What did this dude do? This had to be cheap. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so if he ain't buying you nothing in paying for outings.

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Speaker 1: when I found out you ain't hand him all money.

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Speaker 1: not I'm ready to because I'm not putting no more

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Speaker 1: No you don't. But I don't want him to leave

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Speaker 1: What you that don't make no damn sense. The Sherley

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