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Speaker 1: you here. It is for Auberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject.

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Speaker 1: I went to her house to get my husband. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley. I'm fifty three and I've been married twenty

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Speaker 1: two years. I've been struggling with my husband's two female

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Speaker 1: friends for twenty five years, since the day I met him.

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Speaker 1: We met at an alumni ball and they were his dates.

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Speaker 1: They had to approve of me before we got serious

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Speaker 1: with each other. My husband's two female friends live next

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Speaker 1: door to each other. Their husbands accepted my husband as

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Speaker 1: their wives bonus husband. I never liked it, but I

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Speaker 1: never said anything about it. Many nights, for many years,

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Speaker 1: my husband has been partying over at one of their houses.

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Speaker 1: He never invited me to any of their parties.

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Speaker 2: He always said that there would be drinking and they

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Speaker 2: would be playing cards all night.

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Speaker 1: I don't drink or play cards. My husband says that's

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Speaker 1: what he loved about me. Recently, I started using an

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Speaker 1: app to track our teenagers in case of emergency. I

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Speaker 1: added my husband to the app and forgot to tell

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Speaker 1: him Friday night, it worked in my favor. It was

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Speaker 1: late and my husband wasn't home yet, so I located

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Speaker 1: him on the app. He was at one of the

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Speaker 1: female friends' houses. I got up and I went to

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Speaker 1: get him. The back door was unlocked, and I walked

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Speaker 1: in and saw my husband, the ladies, their husbands, and

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Speaker 1: I counted eight more people. They were all in swimsuits,

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Speaker 1: and one of the white girls said they were about

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Speaker 1: to go skinny dipping in the lake. There is a

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Speaker 1: lake behind the houses, but the water is very nasty.

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Speaker 1: My husband and said it wasn't true, but he had

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Speaker 1: on his swim trunks. He pulled me aside and told

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Speaker 1: me not to ever embarrass him like that again. He's

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Speaker 1: been ignoring me for days. I know my behavior was

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Speaker 1: out of character, So how do I fix this? Those

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Speaker 1: females are a bad influence I hope that we can

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Speaker 1: work things out. Do you think I've lost him to

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Speaker 1: his friends? Well, you never had him from his friends.

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Speaker 1: He never left his friends. He just added you to

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Speaker 1: his mix and you became part of what he already

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Speaker 1: had going on. And you never did anything differently. So

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Speaker 1: it's the friends and then it's you. That's how it is.

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Speaker 1: You're not number one in his life. He doesn't consider

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Speaker 1: your feelings, he doesn't consider your position as his wife

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Speaker 1: in his life. That should be number one at all times.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to fix anything. You didn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: You've been dealing with this mess for twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: He's been with you and with them for that long.

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Speaker 1: You said you met them when you met him twenty

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Speaker 1: five years ago. How dare he try to slip it

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Speaker 1: on you and try to make you the problem and

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Speaker 1: now he's ignoring you. You are not the problem. You

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Speaker 1: just should have spoken up and not allowed this a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. He and his toxic, disrespectful relationship with

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Speaker 1: these so called female friends, that's the problem. So you

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Speaker 1: need to stop being okay with him going over there

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Speaker 1: and drinking and partying and playing cards all night. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what you need to do and stop allowing him

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Speaker 1: to make you feel like you did something to him,

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Speaker 1: because who was going to be skinny dipping with the

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Speaker 1: white girls? What were they there for? Okay? And he

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Speaker 1: was already in his trunks. He's got a lot of

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Speaker 2: He can stay over there with his female friends and

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Speaker 2: his swimming trunks, or come home and be a husband

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 3: Steve. We'll get to that white girl in a minute,

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Speaker 3: because that's what really what this whole damn letter about

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Speaker 3: to you. We'll get to the white girl in the minute,

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Speaker 3: cause I'm telling you right now that what the white

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Speaker 3: girl comes from, because that's what it is. I have

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Speaker 3: told y'all over and over and over about these female friends,

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Speaker 3: about friends of the opposite sex. I have told you

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Speaker 3: all about this over and over and over again. I

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Speaker 3: don't know why y'all think uncle Steve had lost his

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Speaker 3: damn mind. Well, Steve, you just oh, okay, all right, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'll accept that, Steve. It ain't like that no more.

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Speaker 3: A lot of stuff ain't like it is, but it's

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Speaker 3: some things don't ever change. Now, I got all of

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Speaker 3: that that y'all saying about me, But I have told

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Speaker 3: You've been struggling with my husband's two female friends for

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Speaker 3: twenty five years. That's the day you met him with

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Speaker 3: twenty five years ago. You met him at an alumni

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Speaker 3: ball and both of them girls was his dates. They

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Speaker 1: Girl.

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Speaker 3: You ain't talking about his mama, You ain't talking about

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Speaker 3: his sister. You're talking about these two chicks. Now hear

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Speaker 3: the crazy part. Their husbands, the two females girls husbands

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Speaker 3: have accepted my husband's as their wives bonus husband. I

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Speaker 3: never liked it, but I never said anything about it.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm a little bit confused now because this is

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Speaker 3: not black activity. This is complete black activity. I'm starting to,

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Speaker 3: you know, in the words of Robin Thick, blurred lines,

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Speaker 3: we were dealing with some blurred lines here, because now

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Speaker 3: I'm starting to see what he a little later on

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Speaker 3: when the white girls was in the bikinis. Now I'm

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Speaker 3: starting to see where the white girl came from. Somebody,

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Speaker 3: somebody introduced that element to it, because I don't know

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Speaker 3: no black dudes that's cool with they wife having a

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Speaker 3: bonus husband. Boy, what man, you must have lost your

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Speaker 3: rabbit mind. So and many nights for years, your husband

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Speaker 3: been partying over at one of their house. He never

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Speaker 3: invited you to the parties because he said they'd be

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Speaker 3: drinking and playing cars, and you'll drink or play cars.

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Speaker 3: And that's what he say loved about you. And now

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Speaker 3: you done got this app to track your teenagers hit

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Speaker 3: the part I like in case of emergency, I added

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Speaker 3: my husband to the app, and I forgot to tell him.

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Speaker 3: You just said damn that you don't well.

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Speaker 2: Right, hang on, Steve, we'll have part two of your

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Speaker 2: response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 2: Today's Strawberry letter subject I went to her house to

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Speaker 2: get my husband back after this.

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

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Speaker 1: recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject is I went to

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Speaker 1: her house to get my Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, all right. She's got this lady that's been in

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Speaker 3: this relationship twenty five years with this man, been married

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Speaker 3: twenty two. She met him at an alumni ball and

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Speaker 3: his date was these two female friends that she has

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Speaker 3: she has a problem with. They've been friends this whole times.

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Speaker 3: Both of these girlfriends have husbands. The husbands have accepted

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Speaker 3: this woman's husband as their bonus husband. Now that throws

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Speaker 3: me off because that black people don't do that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be over Listen to me.

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Speaker 3: That is really nothing black people do. But you know,

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Speaker 3: times have changed. You know it's different now, Stephen, it

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Speaker 3: might be different, but I tell you what they at different.

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Speaker 3: These friends I keep telling y'all about I play long.

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Speaker 3: So they've accepted him as a bonus husband. And she

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Speaker 3: always go over their house to party, and he say,

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Speaker 3: they go over there and they be drinking and playing cards.

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Speaker 3: She's never invited to come over there because she don't

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Speaker 3: drink or play cards. And he told her that's what

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Speaker 3: he loved about her. So that's always created a problem.

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Speaker 3: Now recently, she says she started using this app so

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Speaker 3: she could track their teenagers and I forgot to end,

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Speaker 3: but she added her husband to the app, and I

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Speaker 3: forgot to tell him, Yeah, that's not true. You know

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Speaker 3: what women don't do forget? Then you know that's why

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Speaker 3: I think women don't do forget. Oh, I forgot to

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Speaker 3: tell you, dog, women don't forget nothing. They don't forget

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Speaker 3: nothing done. So that was a bold face life. But

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Speaker 3: did she say? But it worked in my favor. It

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Speaker 3: was late. My husband wasn't home yet, so I located

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Speaker 3: him on the app. He was at one of the

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Speaker 3: female friends' houses. I got up and I went to

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Speaker 3: get him. The back door was unlocked and I walked in.

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Speaker 3: I saw my husbands, the ladies, they husband, and I

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Speaker 3: counted eight more people. They were all in swimsuits and

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Speaker 3: one one of the white girls, which means that was more.

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Speaker 3: One of the white girls said, they're about to go

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Speaker 3: skinny dipping in the lake. Skinny dipping in naked. Right,

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Speaker 3: there's a lake behind the house. But the water is

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Speaker 3: very nasty. It's nasty to you. But if it's dark outside,

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Speaker 3: it just looked like water. My husband said it wasn't true,

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Speaker 3: but he had on his swim trunk. Boy, you're sitting

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Speaker 3: up the damn nil in your drawers with this white girl,

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Speaker 3: one of the white girls, and said, y'all was good enough.

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Speaker 3: He pulled me outside and told me, don't you ever

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Speaker 3: embassed me like that again? Wow, good move, dog, because

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Speaker 3: the best defense is a good offense. That's what you

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Speaker 3: were supposed to do. But can I tell you how

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Speaker 3: dead wrong you are bro Yeah, and I'm not gonna

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Speaker 3: be able to save you on this one. Because you

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Speaker 3: were sitting up there in your swimming trunk. I thought

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Speaker 3: y'all was drinking and playing card. How's everybody in the house?

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Speaker 3: I walk in half naked, and then guess what? He's

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Speaker 3: been ignoring me for days? Now? Guess what this woman did.

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Speaker 3: I know my behavior was out of character, So how

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Speaker 3: Do you think I've lost him to his friends? Sureley said,

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Speaker 3: you ain't never had it. You haven't lost him to

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Speaker 3: He didn't give up nothing to have to be with you.

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Speaker 3: He didn't have to give up nothing. He kept his

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Speaker 3: same lifestyle everything. He didn't change anything to be with you.

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Speaker 3: He made you accept what he was about, and he

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Speaker 3: wasn't about to change. He wasn't giving up the two friends.

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Speaker 3: Now twenty two years, you don't went over to the house.

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Speaker 3: They all got on swimsuits. Man, can you imagine being

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Speaker 3: and they're talking about pulled me outside, talking about don't

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Speaker 3: you ambarrass me like this? Hell is your clothes at.

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Speaker 1: That's so crazy? Basically in your underwear.

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Speaker 3: You really are And the white girl said, we send

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Speaker 3: to go outside and skinny gift. That's not true. I

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Speaker 3: was not going nowhere. But once you had your swimming

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Speaker 3: truncks on, true, ain't got no pool. Ain't no pool.

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Speaker 3: It's a lake. Can you describe that scene one more?

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Speaker 3: It looked like when you walked in, she walk in.

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Speaker 3: There's two couples in there. One of the couples is

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Speaker 3: in a mixed relationship, because that's how the eight more

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Speaker 3: Ain't no white girls just showed up. Four black people

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Speaker 3: are married. Ain't that? Don't that? Ain't adding y'all right?

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Speaker 3: Right right, but somebody is in an inner racial relationship.

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Speaker 3: And then brought this into the mix. And your husband

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Speaker 3: just over there, just clap it. He don't believe you

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Speaker 3: walked up in there. Everybody got on swim suits. Your

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Speaker 3: husband got on swimming trunks. He ready to go down

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