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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen. If you

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Speaker 1: need advice on relationship, sex, dating, work, parenting, and more.

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Speaker 1: Please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM and

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Speaker 1: click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter

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Speaker 1: live on the air, just like we're gonna read this

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Speaker 1: one right now. Bug it up, Hold on tight, we

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Speaker 1: got it for you. Here it is the Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subjects Do I choose my man or

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Speaker 1: my friends? Here's Stephen Shirley. I am a young, healthy,

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Speaker 1: and wise beyond my years, single woman that is a

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Speaker 1: found the most handsome and amazing man of my dreams.

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Speaker 1: He is respectful, has a great job, a beautiful home,

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Speaker 1: and he treats me like a queen. But here is

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Speaker 1: the problem. Well, it's not a problem for us. It's

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Speaker 1: more a problem for our friends and family. I am

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Speaker 1: twenty two years old and he is two years old. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know you are also shocked by our age difference,

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Speaker 1: but I love him and believe age has nothing to

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Speaker 1: they all judged him immediately because of his age. You

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Speaker 1: that he's using me and it won't last because he

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Speaker 1: is just going through a phase. They didn't even want

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Speaker 1: to get to know him and experience his great personality.

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Speaker 1: My family is not happy with me dating him either.

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Speaker 1: We've been together for a year and he says we're

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Speaker 1: I marry him, I would be choosing him over my friends.

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Speaker 1: I know my family will love me regardless, But now

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Speaker 1: it all my friends and my husband. What do you

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Speaker 1: think is age that important? I need your advice? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you this first off, it's

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Speaker 1: your life. You can't get married and you can't live

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Speaker 1: for and have a relationship for your friends. This is

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Speaker 1: they'll be there for you if they're your friends. But

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Speaker 1: I definitely don't want to ignore this enormous elephant in

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Speaker 1: this letter, and that's that you were twenty two and

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Speaker 1: he is forty two. I mean, this is a huge

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Speaker 1: age difference. I mean, you know, I'm not saying a

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Speaker 1: marriage can't work. I'm sure there are some out there

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Speaker 1: definitely a chance you're taking. It's a chance it could work.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, But you have to have things in common.

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Speaker 1: You say, you guys have been together for a year.

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Speaker 1: You say, he says your soulmates, and he wants to

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Speaker 1: why your your friends are and your family are a

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Speaker 1: little upset, and they're so judgmental because of the big

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Speaker 1: age difference. You know, they probably see things that you

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Speaker 1: don't see. They say he's using you, Is he using you?

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Speaker 1: Or are you two in love? To see that? You know,

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Speaker 1: I just say, don't be so much worried about whether

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Speaker 1: and having to choose between them and your man. You're

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Speaker 1: really are going to choose your man because you love him,

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Speaker 1: and he's older, and he'll probably be able to persuade

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Speaker 1: don't get rid of your friends. You got to keep

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Speaker 1: but it could, Steve because of the age difference. Well,

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Speaker 1: Now right there describing that you found the guy that

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Speaker 1: We didn't say that. Sherley didn't say she was shocked

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Speaker 1: by We're just reading the letter. But you keep prefacing

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Speaker 1: everything with it's a problem. Well, it's really not a

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Speaker 1: problem for us. Then you say you're shocked by age difference. See,

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Speaker 1: this is a problem for you, young lady. But I

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Speaker 1: now what does that mean? What did he do in

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Speaker 1: said you can tell he's a bit old? Yeah? Does

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Speaker 1: Does he have a pack of cools roll up in

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Speaker 1: on sandals? With black socks. Hold that thought, Steve, hold

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Speaker 1: that thought. Uh, we'll have part two of your response

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Speaker 1: three after the hour, Today's Strawberry letter? Do I choose

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Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening show? All right, Steve, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Let's recap today's strawberry letter subject? Do I

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Speaker 1: said she knowed me and Shirley shocked by your age difference.

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Speaker 1: But I love him. I believe ain't nothing they've gotten

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Speaker 1: doing it. When I introduced to my friend, they judged

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Speaker 1: in the car, was the tent on his window bubbling? Really,

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling these old school problems. Now, we just

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Speaker 1: just asking in twenty nineteen, I'm just asking just what

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Speaker 1: you this right here? Did he have on Jordan Jeans

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Speaker 1: won't last because he's going through a fraid phase. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this phase that he could be going

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Speaker 1: through and why I won't last. Here's the problem I

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Speaker 1: see that you're gonna have. And then let me throw

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Speaker 1: now let me just say this, let me finish this letter.

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Speaker 1: I know my family will love me gods, but now

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Speaker 1: I'm ha and doubts about marrying him because I want

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Speaker 1: let me just say this to you. Let's say, y'all, dude,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be still scaling up. He's scaling down because

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Speaker 1: as a woman, though you're thirty two, you're not even

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Speaker 1: more years where you're gonna get real fine. All his

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Speaker 1: fine days about damn Neil Behald? What what all his

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Speaker 1: fine days is about? Damn Neil Behald? Now you think

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Speaker 1: So let's just start there. Man, Now here's your problem.

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Speaker 1: gonna want in life. At thirty two, you'll be wanting

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Speaker 1: to take exciting vacations. At fifty two, he can't too.

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Speaker 1: having ass down nothing. Now I don't do events, go

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Speaker 1: twenty ain't all that bad. But you know when he ten,

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Speaker 1: granddaddy gonna be coming up to the school. That's what

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Speaker 1: damn dad. Now, your friends It's sad that you have

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Speaker 1: I got some news for you that make your real friends,

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Speaker 1: because your friends will not make you choose between them

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Speaker 1: or him. Those are not friends. It's just not so.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but it's gonna be some problems with this age, gal.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't think it is, they're coming. Y'all

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Speaker 1: might be so mates, but you know, for how long?

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