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Speaker 1: it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter. It

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Speaker 1: is a necessity. Thank you. Subject my neighbor's daughter. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm a fifty two year old widower. I

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Speaker 1: dating again. I live in a great neighborhood and my

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Speaker 1: I'm really cool with one of my college buddies that

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Speaker 1: lives around the corner from me. He has grown kids

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Speaker 1: He had mentioned that their daughter is staying with them

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Speaker 1: during the pandemic, and I happened to run into her

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Speaker 1: one day while I was out jogging. I hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: We greeted each other and that was it. The next

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Speaker 1: day I went jogging again, hoping to run into her. Well,

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Speaker 1: was glad to see me again too. I told her

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Speaker 1: I was a widower, and she told me that she

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Speaker 1: was back in town for a month or two. She's

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Speaker 1: to a woman. It blew my mind. I'm really starting

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Speaker 1: to develop feelings for her, and we've spent almost every

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Speaker 1: afternoon together. Now I'm wondering if it's time to come

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Speaker 1: clean and stop hiding our relationship from her parents. It's

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Speaker 1: a tricky situation, but I didn't know this girl when

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Speaker 1: she was growing up, and I'm not really that close

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Speaker 1: to her parents. We would love to have their blessings

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Speaker 1: before we're intimate. She is grown, but still terrified of

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Speaker 1: what her parents will do and say. How should I

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Speaker 1: approach this subject? Please? Advise. Wow, first of all, sorry

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Speaker 1: for your loss, and yeah, I gotta tell you this

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Speaker 1: is a big problem. I think this is a problem.

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Speaker 1: You may not think so right now, because the heart

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Speaker 1: all of that. But didn't you say this was your

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Speaker 1: college buddy's daughter. I mean you said also that she's

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Speaker 1: thirty and grown and all of that. But just think

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Speaker 1: with was doing your daughter. I mean, just put yourself

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Speaker 1: in his position once he finds out. And what about this?

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Speaker 1: You put this in the letter. In the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the letter, you said you guys were cool. You know,

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Speaker 1: he lives around the corner, he and his wife. They

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Speaker 1: You know, you said all of that. But by the

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Speaker 1: end of the letter, now you're saying you're not really

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Speaker 1: growing up. But is that really true? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: you know, say you're not that close, so you can

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Speaker 1: justify your feelings for their daughter, and you know the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're trying to get with her, So you're

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Speaker 1: You know what, I think you're gonna have to leave

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Speaker 1: her alone. I think you're asking for trouble in this situation.

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Speaker 1: That's your friend's daughter. I don't think he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: of good women picks someone else. Steve, y'all know that

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Speaker 1: I'm not good at this type of letter, So before

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Speaker 1: anything that I might say. Yeah, I'm just saying this, Carseo,

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Speaker 1: I can't help you, I don't know what to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Then I go to what I do know, which is

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Speaker 1: my comedy. He it is you live in a great neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: You a witherer. I lost my wife four years ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh I see, oh, oh see, I didn't hear that.

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Speaker 1: Oh so you this lady. Okay, she already gay. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: that's oh that's different. Four years ago and I haven't

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Speaker 1: started dating again. So you know you lost her four

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Speaker 1: wasn't quite coming up with that. You know, y'all had

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Speaker 1: went to the malls and got lost and you ain't

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Speaker 1: found what there was. Yeah, for years. I just stopped

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Speaker 1: looking after a while. You know, I'm I'm adjusting to

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Speaker 1: you know, especially if I'm jogging and I see somebody, fine,

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Speaker 1: you know, she ain't been homing or where I was anyway. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We greeted each other and that was it. Next day

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Speaker 1: She thirty and gorgeous. She likes your jog, getting back

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Speaker 1: now in this the pandemic. Right, yeah, y'all jogging mighty close?

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Speaker 1: All right, don't sound like a six foot away job

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Speaker 1: part two of Steve's three Months. It's coming up in

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Speaker 1: my neighbor's daughter. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening morning show, All right, Steve, come on, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letters. Subject my name's daughter. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: like I said, you know, the fifties year year old

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Speaker 1: dude lost his wife somehow. I didn't quite get that

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Speaker 1: month or two. She is thirty, lord, gorgeous. She liked

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Speaker 1: wonder if it's time to come clean and stop hiding

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Speaker 1: in college. Yeah this I asked for me, Dog, you

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Speaker 1: we're into it. Okay, dog, you you brought you fifty two,

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Speaker 1: Get dog, dog, parents don't bless this now you you

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Speaker 1: Well it's an older man. Y'all then talked about it.

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Speaker 1: They know that her parents know you. How should I

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Speaker 1: Me and time we got daughters on this show. We're

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Speaker 1: not fitling to be cool with you, dog, We're not

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Speaker 1: not a naring one of them, and to two of

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Speaker 1: my sugar honey iced tea lists and as soon as

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Speaker 1: I can do something about it, I am trust and beliegue. Oh,

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Speaker 1: trust and beliege. Once you get on that list with me, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I got something for you. I'm not playing with your

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get your ass when you deserve it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: literally do dog? You think he was crying four years ago?

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Speaker 1: You were you waiting? He started woman when he lost

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Speaker 1: his wife at the Mary. Yeah, yeah, man, this this

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Speaker 1: ain't I'm the dog. Plenty of women out there. You

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Speaker 1: you want to date again, dog, date something else you

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Speaker 1: called LUs partner, that's right. What do you have to

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Speaker 1: partner that this ain't gonna go good? Move it along. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he's still at that age where he in the

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Speaker 1: ass whipping range, too slow, fighting hands. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a slow fight. But the dudes in their fifties they

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Speaker 1: we damn show got hands. You just ain't got no

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Speaker 1: Cast on Demand two now coming up at forty six

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Speaker 1: minutes after the hour of the Nephew in the Building

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Speaker 1: Stave Harvey Morning Show.