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

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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now. That's for you, Jay,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Bugle hold on tight, We got it

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Speaker 1: for you here. It is a Strawberry Letter. Subjects I'm

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Speaker 1: too old for these games. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a

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Speaker 1: fifty seven year old, very attractive widow. I started back

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Speaker 1: dating four years ago after giving myself time to deal

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Speaker 1: I met a really nice man at a bar and

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Speaker 1: he told me I was gorgeous and he'd love to

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Speaker 1: he would treat her like a quick For our second date,

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Speaker 1: I met him at his home or should I say

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Speaker 1: a state. He had a He has a very plush

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Speaker 1: cater to all of my wants and needs and take

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Speaker 1: me on many adventures. The next week, he invited me

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Speaker 1: to travel overseas with him on a business trip. Since

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Speaker 1: we met, he has taken me on several deluxe trips

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Speaker 1: and I am treated like a princess when we're together.

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Speaker 1: He is sixty three years old and divorced, so I

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Speaker 1: He must have felt huh, I had flashed back, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're sixty three. He's sixty three years old, and nobody

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Speaker 1: deal with it, just you know, you know, please don't

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Speaker 1: listen to Jay. He's sixty three years old and divorced,

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Speaker 1: so I thought he was interested in building a great

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Speaker 1: day and let me know that our quote unquote arrangement

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Speaker 1: only works if I know my place. He said, I

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Speaker 1: should stay beautiful, be ready to travel, and always ready

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Speaker 1: to satisfy him sexually. I was so hurt and upset.

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Speaker 1: He gave me no signs that he was an old player.

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Speaker 1: Now I've fallen for him and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: stop seeing him. Should I take what I can get

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Speaker 1: at my age or should I end this and forget

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Speaker 1: these those great trips? Well, um, I gotta disagree with

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Speaker 1: you because he set it up front. He set it

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Speaker 1: He said that. He said that plane is day to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got caught up. But to answer your question, I

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Speaker 1: just think that you know you should get what you want.

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Speaker 1: If this is not what you want, don't settle. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with how old you are

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Speaker 1: anything like that. I mean, just because he's rich and

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Speaker 1: and all of this and do whatever. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that he owns you. It doesn't mean that he can

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Speaker 1: run you, doesn't mean any of that. You're a grown woman,

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Speaker 1: and if it's a relationship you want and need, then

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Speaker 1: that's what you should have. It just won't be with him.

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Speaker 1: It just will not be with mister sixty three years

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Speaker 1: be with him because He told you he wanted a

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Speaker 1: sexual connection, a deep sexual connection. You know, you cannot

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Speaker 1: have it both ways with this man. It's either his

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Speaker 1: way or no way. He's already told you to know

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Speaker 1: your place in this arrangement. He's called it an arrangement.

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Speaker 1: He's giving you all these words. The signs are there,

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Speaker 1: all of them are there. Some women would happily and gladly,

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Speaker 1: be happy to go on all these exotic trips and

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Speaker 1: have to do nothing but look beautiful. But this situation

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Speaker 1: is not for you. You're in love and you want

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Speaker 1: instead of a deep sexual connection with him, you want

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Speaker 1: So this is not for you. So yes, I say

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Speaker 1: what you're looking for. Right now. You want more and

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Speaker 1: you probably deserve it, So do what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: Let this one go, Steve, I don't I don't understand

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Speaker 1: the confusion. Shirley said it. He told you at the beginning.

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Speaker 1: See here, let me, let me let me help you

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Speaker 1: understand something. You're fifty seven, very attractive. Wittall started back

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Speaker 1: no more. At just ain't the stomping ground normally, unless

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Speaker 1: evening and the day of those are called girls. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: he told me that you was gorgeous and he'd loved

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Speaker 1: first date, I was hooked on what y'all just eight?

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Speaker 1: you heard. Treat like a queen. He did that. But

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Speaker 1: let me help you understand something. For we go to

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Speaker 1: break when a man tells you that he wants a

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Speaker 1: deep sexual connection. What deep sexual connection actually means is

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Speaker 1: no other connection. When a man says I want a

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Speaker 1: deep sexual connection, parentheses, no other connection is what that means.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Okay, we'll have part two of your response

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Speaker 1: I'm too old for these games. We'll get back into

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's strawberry letters. Subject I'm too

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Speaker 1: old for these games. It's not a game. Ma'am, you didn't.

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Speaker 1: You didn't. You didn't. You weren't listening. It's sad to say,

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Speaker 1: You went on your first date. I was hooked. One date, Bam,

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Speaker 1: You heard, whoever he was with, he would treat like

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Speaker 1: treat you like a queen. So on your second date,

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Speaker 1: I went to his home or should I say a state.

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Speaker 1: He has a very plush lifestyle and three luxury cause.

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Speaker 1: So you in the garage, you looking at them setting sheets.

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Speaker 1: two nights. Whoa, oh girl, you you You made him

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Speaker 1: many adventures. The man so far has not lied. Next

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Speaker 1: week he invited me to travel overseas better quick going

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Speaker 1: with them trips? Yes, Corona. Next week he invited me

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Speaker 1: a deluxe trip? What is that? We've been on several

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Speaker 1: deluxe trips? No, no, no, no no, what is it? Ja?

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Speaker 1: What is a deluxe trip? It's a it's a big,

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Speaker 1: So they was on a big plane and they was

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Speaker 1: And I'm treated like a princess when we together. He's

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Speaker 1: not an old player. He told you exactly what was upfront.

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Speaker 1: Here's the news that you don't know. You are one

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Speaker 1: The reason he's so smiled with the presentation is because

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Speaker 1: He finds attractive women who are lonely like you, and

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Speaker 1: he subdues them for sex, for deep sexual connections. That's

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Speaker 1: all he wanted from you. In return, he treats you

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Speaker 1: That's all you just got put in the pocket. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of y'all out there. You ain't the only one,

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Speaker 1: but you thought that he wanted to be building a

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Speaker 1: forget those great trips? Hold up? Are you talking in circles?

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Speaker 1: Because everything you're saying just gets back to still seeing him.

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Speaker 1: First of all, lady, let's just be d you're not

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Speaker 1: I can get at my age? Don't put this on

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Speaker 1: but he's not building or any further relationship with you.

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Speaker 1: And I want to remind you that men don't give promotions.

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Speaker 1: number one, we don't do promotions. I'm sorry, man, don't

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