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Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now, and you never

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Speaker 1: know it could be yours. Yes, yes, buggle up, hold

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Speaker 1: the Strawberry Letter. Thank in Fhe subject my three weight

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Speaker 1: love affair. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty year old

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Speaker 1: married woman and my husband and I have a sister

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Speaker 1: friend that has been a major part of my life

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Speaker 1: since I was seven years old. We did everything together,

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Speaker 1: even went to college the same college and graduated at

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Speaker 1: the same time. When I got engaged, she got engaged.

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Speaker 1: Our fiances didn't get along, so my man would always

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Speaker 1: take my best decide when she was having an issue

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Speaker 1: with her fiance. A few weeks after we got engaged,

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Speaker 1: my man told me that my bestie's man was cheating

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Speaker 1: on her. I was shocked and hurt when I saw

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Speaker 1: chick's house. My man and I decided not to tell

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Speaker 1: her anything, But then my man got really upset with

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Speaker 1: with us for two weeks and called off their engagement.

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Speaker 1: So now that we're married, she's part of our family.

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Speaker 1: She travels with my husband, hubby, and I, and she

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Speaker 1: comes for weekly movie nights at her house. She's dating again,

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Speaker 1: and when she meets men, she brings them to meet

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Speaker 1: us so we can pass judgment on them. I've been

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Speaker 1: noticing lately that my husband is more opinionated than usual,

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Speaker 1: my bestie. That's a red flag for me, so I

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Speaker 1: jokingly asked him if he'd liked to clone himself so

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Speaker 1: my bestie could be with a man just like him.

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Speaker 1: He got very earitate it with me, so I have

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Speaker 1: been wondering if something is going on with him in

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Speaker 1: my bestie. As a test, I told him that we're

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Speaker 1: going on an anniversary trip alone. He said it would

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Speaker 1: be weird to leave my bestie out. I asked him

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Speaker 1: if we are in a three way love affair. He

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Speaker 1: laughed it off and said, no, but does he really

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Speaker 1: care about her feelings? What's going on here? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he does care about her feelings, as do you. I

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Speaker 1: mean you called her your sister friend. You guys have

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Speaker 1: been together since seven years old, So yeah, he cares

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Speaker 1: about her for sure. And if you ask me, he's

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Speaker 1: certainly acting like a guilty, jealous man when she brings

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Speaker 1: other men around. I'm very surprised it took you so

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Speaker 1: long to notice a red flag. I think there have

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Speaker 1: been several. First, and most importantly, when you guys agree

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Speaker 1: and when you and your husband agreed not to tell

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Speaker 1: your bestie. He's the one who told about the cheating.

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Speaker 1: That's a major riffle. That's not really what men do.

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Speaker 1: They don't snitch on each other. Now, he's so concerned

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Speaker 1: about her and who she dates. You guys have movie

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Speaker 1: nights together and she travels with you. What you're feeling

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Speaker 1: is right. You know, it is a three way love affair.

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Speaker 1: Who or what couple do you know whose husband can

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Speaker 1: be let behave How your husband is behaving about her

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Speaker 1: and that there's nothing going on, Just think about that.

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Speaker 1: He's doing way too much when it comes to her,

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Speaker 1: and you need to check them both. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to know what's going on. You already suspect them anyway,

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Speaker 1: So I say you confront them and get it over with. Steve. Wow, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. It's an interesting letter. I will say this

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Speaker 1: about women. Most of the time, what you feel is real.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time. It's because God gifted you all

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Speaker 1: you more than he gave it to men. Women are

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Speaker 1: born with it. You should trust it and lean on it.

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Speaker 1: So usually what you think or field is usually real.

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Speaker 1: You're forty year old, married woman. Your husband and I

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Speaker 1: have a sister friend. That's interesting. That's been a major

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Speaker 1: part of my life since I was seven. We did

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Speaker 1: everything together. This is very important in this whole letter.

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Speaker 1: We did everything together. Now pay attention. Y'all even went

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Speaker 1: I got engaged, she got engaged. That's everything. That ass everything.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that your man told you that your bestie's

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Speaker 1: Where your man get the video from? Where did your

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Speaker 1: One of two things was happening. Either the fiance who

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Speaker 1: don't get along, Hello, the fiances that don't get along?

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Speaker 1: He gave your husband the video, Like, hey, check me

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Speaker 1: out all your husband made the video, labor. Two things

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Speaker 1: can happen, ain'ber two things can happen. Hello, Hello, y'all

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Speaker 1: do everything again? Hello? All that thought. We'll have part

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Speaker 1: two of your response coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour Today's Strawberry Letters subject my three way

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Speaker 1: love affair. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening show, all right, Come on, Steve, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today's strawberry letter. The subject is is my three way

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Speaker 1: love affair for the old married woman and husband They

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Speaker 1: have a sister friend. Well it's a husband now, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take you on this journey. And the sister

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Speaker 1: friend been the major part of this woman's life and

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Speaker 1: to you seven, they do everything together. Keep that in mind.

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Speaker 1: Even when to the same college graduated at the same time.

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Speaker 1: When I got engaged, she got engaged. Our fiances didn't

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Speaker 1: get along. So my man, which is her fiance, the

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Speaker 1: writer of this letter, would always take my bestie side

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Speaker 1: when she was having an issue with her fiance. Now,

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Speaker 1: me that my bestie's man was cheating on her. I

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Speaker 1: where did your man get this video from? Because they

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Speaker 1: don't get along. The two fiances don't get along, and

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Speaker 1: sided with the girl. Where did he get the video?

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Speaker 1: Because if I don't like a dude and we ain't cool,

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Speaker 1: why would I show him a video, or me asleep

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Speaker 1: over another cheek's house? What purpose did that, sir? Unless

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Speaker 1: your man was there and took the video? You hit him? Crickets?

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Speaker 1: We don't know. Did you hit him? Crickets? Just now

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Speaker 1: I got you thinking, ain't I? My man and I

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Speaker 1: Now she's part of our family. She travels with my

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Speaker 1: moved knights at our house. Okay, she's dating again, which

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Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that your girl is attractive, and I

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Speaker 1: that he wants her around everywhere. So now y'all traveling together,

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Speaker 1: That's a red flag for me. I had a lady

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Speaker 1: on my talk show one time said women should stop

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Speaker 1: collecting red flags. It's a red flag for reasons. Stop

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Speaker 1: I joke, you know, would you like to clone yourself

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Speaker 1: wondering if something is going on with him and my bestie.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here? Okay, okay, okay, you're ready, You're ready.

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Speaker 1: What you think going on? Because that's what you wrote

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Speaker 1: the deal. I've said that now. The fact that this

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Speaker 1: that's what. Yeah, that's that's what you're in. That's what

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Speaker 1: Didn't y'all invite this third party into y'all's life and home?

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Speaker 1: I ain't got no man. Well, she ain't saying that

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Speaker 1: ever noticed that the two of y'all ain't ever alone together.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about you and your girlfriend. You ever noticed that? Oh? Wow, huh? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Have you? Have you picked that game? When y'all go

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Speaker 1: on the trips, it ain't ever you and your girl

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Speaker 1: by himself, but you don't see her. She don't come girl,

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Speaker 1: Push up, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, jumping Jack's

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Speaker 1: mountain climbers. Yeah, you know a lot of cardio, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of cardios. Knee being Yova's lighted downward dogs,

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