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Speaker 1: All right, it is time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: And if you need advice on your relationships, on work,

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Speaker 1: on sex, I'm parenting all of that. Please visit Steve

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Speaker 1: reading your letter live on the air, just like we're

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Speaker 1: gonna read this one. Boy, this is from a man too.

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Speaker 1: Let's call baby. Buckle up and 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: All right, guys, get ready, Guys on this show subject

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Speaker 1: and Unattractive Man's plea for help. Dear Stephen Shirley, I

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Speaker 1: am writing you for advice since I have heard your

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Speaker 1: guys talk about this on your show before. I'm in

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Speaker 1: my mid thirties and I'm an educated man with a

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Speaker 1: great job, and I'm financially secure. I was in a

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Speaker 1: ten year relationship that ended a few years ago, and

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Speaker 1: since that breakup, I have had problems meeting women. I

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Speaker 1: have been ignored by women when I try to speak

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Speaker 1: to them or strike up a conversation. I had considered

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Speaker 1: many possibilities as to why women avoid me, and I've

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Speaker 1: come to this conclusion it's because I am an unattractive man.

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Speaker 1: And I have realized that my facial features aren't the

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Speaker 1: cutest all right. I wanted to put my theory to

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Speaker 1: the test, so I tried online dating. But instead of

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Speaker 1: putting my picture on the site my picture on the site,

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Speaker 1: I chose a picture of another brother that I thought

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Speaker 1: would be handsome to women. A lot of women responded

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Speaker 1: decided that I would reveal my true identity to each

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Speaker 1: one of these ladies the day before our date, so

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Speaker 1: there would be no public surprises. I send each lady

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Speaker 1: a selfie of me. The first lady got very upset

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Speaker 1: and threatened to have her male friends jump me if

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Speaker 1: I ever contact her again. The other three ladies never

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Speaker 1: responded to my text. One of them even blocked my number.

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Speaker 1: I know that lying was unethical, but I needed to

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Speaker 1: see if they liked me for me and not how

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Speaker 1: I look. My ex girlfriend never complained about my looks,

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Speaker 1: so why are these women so shallow? I have deleted

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Speaker 1: my dating profile and I'm giving it a rest for

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Speaker 1: a while. I still have hope that there's a woman

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Speaker 1: in me. I've even considered plastic surgery. How should I do?

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Speaker 1: Let me finish? How should I deal with it? Got

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Speaker 1: any advice? Please help? Yeah? Yeah? Wow? Okay, Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely nothing wrong with wanting to improve your looks

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Speaker 1: with plastic surgery if it'll make you feel and look better. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We really, though, have to see for ourselves what you

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Speaker 1: look like in order to make a real assessment on

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Speaker 1: this letter. You didn't. You didn't tell us why you

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Speaker 1: broke up with your girlfriend of ten years. You didn't

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Speaker 1: that women will often date a man who isn't attractive

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Speaker 1: if he's a gentleman, if he's nice, if he if

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Speaker 1: if you're unattractive or any man period, you have to

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Speaker 1: be clean. You have to be well groomed. You have

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Speaker 1: to have good hygiene. You have to be smelling good

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Speaker 1: your breath and feet. You have to have all of this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you do. I'm telling you from a from a woman's perspective.

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Speaker 1: It's not always about the looks, all right, But it

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Speaker 1: sounds like it sounds like you're I mean, you said

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Speaker 1: work on your other features. I would tell you work

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Speaker 1: on your other fee. Steve, first of all, quits saying features,

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Speaker 1: because that's that's a trigger for you. That's the damn problem.

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Speaker 1: I was told by this girl in ninth grade, while

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Speaker 1: to tell Timmy that he's ugly for years and going

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Speaker 1: on death is it's okay time. I'm just gonna use

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Speaker 1: it this once. This ain't about you. I'm gonna use

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Speaker 1: So let's just go from that standpoint. But you need

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Speaker 1: my facial features aren't the cutest. Here's a word you

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Speaker 1: have to stop using. Cute. Cute is for babies. Now

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Speaker 1: have a man to man talk. You know, goodn't hear

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Speaker 1: where you heard this before? You quit googling and all

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Speaker 1: this here this, you dog, you heard this before several times.

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Speaker 1: See when you're in your thirties and you ugly. This

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Speaker 1: hear is at the school with a little kid. Damn yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: you busted. You look like. Ain't no telling what dad

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Speaker 1: your little theory to the test. So you went online, Dayton,

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Speaker 1: But instead of putting your the real picture of you

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Speaker 1: got a picture of another brother that I thought was

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Speaker 1: to be handsome to women. Whole lot of women responded

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Speaker 1: to my profile, and I ended up choosing foe of

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Speaker 1: the baddest ones to ask out on the date. But

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Speaker 1: then you decided that you reveal your true identity each

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Speaker 1: one of these ladies the day before to day. So

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Speaker 1: what no public surprises because you've publicly surprised a couple

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Speaker 1: of people before? What do you mean? See? Hey baby?

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Speaker 1: All right? Well at martinew of Steve's response coming up

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Speaker 1: in twenty three after the hour you're listening, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letter up with part two of you.

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Speaker 1: Thirty year old man broke up with his ten year relationship.

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Speaker 1: They ended a few years ago, and since that break up,

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Speaker 1: he'd have had problems meeting women, Uh you know, walk

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Speaker 1: up to him, to ignore him, to speak to him,

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Speaker 1: considered a lot of possibilities, why women avoid him, And

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Speaker 1: he's come to this conclusion, y'all. He says, it's because

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Speaker 1: I'm an unattractive man, and I realized that my facial

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Speaker 1: terms like cute, because baby's just cute. I gotta ask

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Speaker 1: you something. Go ahead and ask me right now. Why

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Speaker 1: didn't he use the word ugly? He just uses unattractive

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Speaker 1: in words like cute. Well, he don't want to hurt

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Speaker 1: his own Oh okay, okay, see now I'm about to

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Speaker 1: All right, you're unattractive, don't You ain't the first one?

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Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't attractive eating he ain't Jay the tract.

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Speaker 1: Here we go and this turtle he's showing an each other. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm cute, I'm sexy. I'm trying a cricket. Look at somebody.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that with y'all doing a big light

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Speaker 1: So he did a dating profile, put a different brother

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Speaker 1: picture off. A lot of women responded. He decided to

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Speaker 1: which he has had many of in his life. And

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Speaker 1: you know how that go? Hey, baby, how you doing that?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me? Can I can I step in front of you?

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Speaker 1: This When he first heard it, this is when he

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Speaker 1: first heard it. Trick or treat. That's when he first

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Speaker 1: heard it. But he just thought it was his costume.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't realize his maskket fell off in the drive.

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Speaker 1: He was standing there with his box and his mask

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Speaker 1: ket fell off in the drive with a little rubber

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Speaker 1: band pope, and he didn't know it. So this ain't so.

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Speaker 1: He's had a lot of public surprises, so he did

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Speaker 1: figured in order before I do this, let me send

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Speaker 1: him a selfie of myself. Now the danger would tell

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Speaker 1: him selfish bros. Most dudes don't know how to take selfish.

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Speaker 1: I know I don't. When I hold that camera up, man,

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Speaker 1: I look so strange looking, you know. I take a

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Speaker 1: self and I look like terrier. I'm just all head

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Speaker 1: in this damn camera. It's scary. Shoulders look real narrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm telling you that this wasn't a good idea,

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Speaker 1: She used to this, so she got a squatter. People

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Speaker 1: that would people for doing stuff like this. What's scared

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Speaker 1: of the most was how you looked in the self. See,

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Speaker 1: you had on a ski mask. She didn't know that

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Speaker 1: my text. They said you got one, didn'tn't even block

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Speaker 1: my number. I know that line was unethical, but I

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Speaker 1: how I look. Boy. They liked how you look. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing on the dating profile said how you look. The

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Speaker 1: rest of you fine, you educated, you got all that,

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Speaker 1: but they wanted to pitch you. Now, this is where

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Speaker 1: we're getting down to the hard partner letter. My ex

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Speaker 1: girlfriend never complained about my looks. Here we go, this

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Speaker 1: Who is your girl? What she looked like? Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: More ugly? How she stayed with you for ten years?

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Speaker 1: I ain't say nothing, man, We need to talk about

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Speaker 1: this now. Ten years she stayed with you. Ain't saying nothing.

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Speaker 1: She never mentioned it to you. You ain't never wonder

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Speaker 1: why she ain't saying nothing in ten years? Hey baby? All?

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Speaker 1: Could it have gone like this? Hey baby? Then? She snatural. Baby,

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Speaker 1: y'all just scaring each other. Maybe, Dog, she needed you

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Speaker 1: as much as bad as you needed help. You're probably

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Speaker 1: gonna need to go back the hood and find out,

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Speaker 1: you know, if she'll have you back. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't see this going nowhere. So Shirley said, you gotta

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Speaker 1: get real clean. You gotta get a lot of swag.

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Speaker 1: You gotta dressed real shop, you gotta get a real

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Speaker 1: stylus coming down. I don't know if you're in the

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Speaker 1: gym and you're in real good shape, but you probably

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Speaker 1: need to get in that gym with them two Africans

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Speaker 1: that jumped on Justice money three thousand dollars. I think

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Speaker 1: they can't get you in shape. We gotta get your

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Speaker 1: on the program, man, get your body right tightened up. Dog.

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Speaker 1: Now I've considered plastic surgery. Here's another tail tale line. Wow,

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Speaker 1: First of all, your girlfriend stayed with your ten years.

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Speaker 1: How unless unless she knew, unless she knew this was

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Speaker 1: it for her, that she did it ten years and

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Speaker 1: she decided I can't play the rain the game. Now

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Speaker 1: you said, sir, I've even considered plastic surgery. You didn't

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Speaker 1: say a nose job or nothing. You're really thinking about

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Speaker 1: getting your whole shot took her out. Try this website

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Speaker 1: we ugly too dot com. I like that. I like

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Speaker 1: that we ugly too. All right, Look, leave us your

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