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Speaker 2: We got it for you here it is Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew Tommy subject, my friend, my husband, and

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Speaker 1: my mother. Dear Stephen Shirley. I wrote in about my

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Speaker 1: husband helping out my best friend after her husband died.

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Speaker 1: My mother visited us from Nigeria and said, and she

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Speaker 1: told me that I was giving my husband permission to cheat,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't want to believe her. I got so

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Speaker 1: offended by what she said because I trusted my husband.

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Speaker 1: My mom wasn't having it, and she was so persistent

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Speaker 1: that she told me to pass by my friend's house

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Speaker 1: after we picked my son up from preschool. Husband's truck

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Speaker 1: was on the side of my friend's house, not in

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Speaker 1: her driveway, but on the side of her house a

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Speaker 1: little ways up from her house. She told me to

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Speaker 1: park the car and call my husband. He didn't adder

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Speaker 1: the phone, so my mom was trying to get me

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Speaker 1: to go to my friend's door. I refused to go

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Speaker 1: to her door, and I didn't call her because my

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Speaker 1: mom was too fired up. My husband came home an

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Speaker 1: hour later and I told him I called him. He

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Speaker 1: said his phone died. He said he was at my

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Speaker 1: friend's house getting a wasp nest off her patio. My

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Speaker 1: mother raised up and told him that we drove by,

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Speaker 1: saw his truck and called him and he ignored us.

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Speaker 1: He said it was because he was getting the wasp nest.

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Speaker 1: Then he showed us that his phone was dead. Mom

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Speaker 1: called him a liar, and I wanted her to back

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Speaker 1: down and get out of our business. He yelled at

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Speaker 1: me and said that my mom is all in my

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Speaker 1: head and he hasn't done anything. He swore that he

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Speaker 1: would never help my friend again. That night, my husband

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Speaker 1: said he wants my mother to go home immediately. Should

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Speaker 1: I trust him or listen to my mom? Well, first

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Speaker 1: of all, we got it. Thank you for the follow

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Speaker 1: up letter. Thank you Steve, Thank you for this follow

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Speaker 1: up letter. We appreciate you. You writing us back and

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Speaker 1: letting us know what's going on. And I have to

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Speaker 1: ask you, what does your gut say? Because you are

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Speaker 1: feeling something right now, that's why you wrote us again

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Speaker 1: with this follow up letter. Things a little off for

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Speaker 1: you. Your mom has put that in your head, like your

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Speaker 1: husband said, and so much so that you drove by

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Speaker 1: your friend's house and saw your husband's truck parked suspiciously

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Speaker 1: on the side of the house, not in the driveway

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Speaker 1: like you said. But you didn't follow through. You didn't

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Speaker 1: go and knock on the door and see for yourself

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Speaker 1: what was going on. But you did call your husband's

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Speaker 1: phone and he didn't answer. Uh oh. So now you're

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Speaker 1: confused because you want to continue to trust your husband

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to believe the worst about your friend,

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Speaker 1: and you definitely don't want to agree with your mom

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Speaker 1: that something's going on. But it's not looking good for

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Speaker 1: your husband right now. It's just not He said he

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Speaker 1: would never help your friend again. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great idea. She should get someone else to do her work. True,

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Speaker 1: your mom should not be in your business. She should

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Speaker 1: not be in your business. But in her defense, if

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Speaker 1: her suspicions ring true. She's not going to stand by

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Speaker 1: and watch her daughter get hurt. No mother would do that.

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Speaker 1: Your husband wants your mother to go home. That could

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Speaker 1: only be for two reasons. Either she's wrong for budding

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Speaker 3: That's it, Steve, I totally one hundred percent disagree with Shirley.

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Speaker 2: You know, y'all. First of all, this lady's writing a

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Speaker 2: follow up letter. Follow up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so she had written in and told us that

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Speaker 3: her mother was visiting from Nigeria, and she has suspicions

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Speaker 3: about her husband, but the wife didn't. The wife has

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Speaker 3: because her husband had passed and she needs some help.

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Speaker 3: That's the reason that the man is over there. But

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Speaker 3: now Shirley said, trust your intuition. What is your intuition

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Speaker 3: telling you? Her intuition, her gud ain't telling her nothing.

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Speaker 3: It's her damn mama. Her intuition didn't have no suspicion.

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Speaker 3: This is her old ass mama who ain't got no man.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to keep a man. Now I

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Speaker 3: the one she got. This letter is sickening to me,

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Speaker 3: and Shirley's response, this response is not the proper risk

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Speaker 3: helping out my best friend after her husband died.

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Speaker 2: You asked him to do that.

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Speaker 3: My mother visited from Nigeria and she told me I

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Speaker 2: And I didn't want to believe her. And I was

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Speaker 3: My husband, which means her gut wasn't telling her anything.

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Speaker 3: Her MoMA, her damn mom, and she ain't still ain't

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Speaker 3: so persisent. She told me to pass by my friend's

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Speaker 3: not in her driveway, but on the side of her house,

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Speaker 3: a little ways up from her house. What hell he

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Speaker 3: parked his truck at What is that a description of?

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Speaker 3: On the side of her house, not in the driveway,

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Speaker 3: but up from her house. What you see, we're picking

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Speaker 3: the straws now. She told me to park the car

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Speaker 3: called him, and he said his phone died. You hear

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Speaker 3: that his phone died, And then he said he volunteered

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Speaker 3: disinformation right quick. He said he was at my friend's

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Speaker 2: She didn't ask him what he was doing.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hang on, Steve, We'll have part two of

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Speaker 1: your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the

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Speaker 1: hour of today's Strawberry letter, subject my friend, my husband,

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Speaker 1: and my mother. We'll get back into it right 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, my friend, my husband and my mother.

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Speaker 2: This is a follow up letter.

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Speaker 3: A lady wrote us and told her mother was visiting

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Speaker 3: from Nigeria and she had suspicions about her husband cheating

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Speaker 3: because her she told her daughter, you gave him permission

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Speaker 3: to cheat by sending him over to her best friend's

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Speaker 3: house to help her fix some things cause her husband

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Speaker 3: had passed. Why is your messy ass, mama in this,

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Speaker 3: Shirley said, what does your gut tell you? Well, she

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Speaker 3: said in the letter, she said, I was giving my

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Speaker 3: and I didn't wanna believe her. I got so offended

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Speaker 3: she didn't have no intuition that her husband was up

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Speaker 3: to something and doing something. Her mama put this in

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Speaker 3: her head. Shirley, she busybody, asked Mama.

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Speaker 2: So she was so persistent in it.

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Speaker 3: After they picked up the kid from school one day,

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Speaker 2: My husband's truck was on the.

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Speaker 3: Side of my friend's house, not in her driveway, but

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Speaker 2: Her house, a little ways up from her house.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know what that means, but what she

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Speaker 3: told me the part can call my husband. He ain't

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Speaker 3: an hour later. I told him I called him. He

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Speaker 3: said his phone died. Papy, perfect, But I'm gonna show

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Speaker 3: you what makes this one so good, because see me,

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Speaker 3: that would be the perfect lie. My phone died. I

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Speaker 3: charged it up in the car on the way here.

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Speaker 3: That would have been perfect lie. But he said, my

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Speaker 3: phone died. He said he was at my friend's house

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Speaker 3: getting a washed nest off her patio. You didn't ask

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Speaker 3: him what he was doing, He said, I called you

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Speaker 3: at my friend's house. You ain't answering my phone. He said, well,

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Speaker 3: off your friend's patio. That's easy to confirm. Ask your

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Speaker 3: raised up this lonely raggedy by herself, asked old ass.

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Speaker 3: Woman raises up and says that's not nice. She in

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Speaker 3: this man business. That ain't nice her raggedy, busybody. No man,

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Speaker 3: having asked Mama, that's who this He is? Raised up

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Speaker 3: and told him we drove by, saw your truck, You called,

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Speaker 3: if it's dead, ain't get the washing is done. Then

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Speaker 3: So this brother even took My mom called him a liar.

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Speaker 3: Why is your ass miss negative by your self ass

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Speaker 2: She been in your business. Shit she got there.

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Speaker 3: He yelled at me and said that my mom is

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Speaker 2: And guess what.

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Speaker 3: There is no proof other than your mama's suspicion that

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Speaker 3: him to go over your best friend's house whose husbands

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Speaker 2: That's all it is.

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Speaker 3: And your mama came to the conclusion that if you

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Speaker 3: tell a man to go over your best friend's house,

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Speaker 3: you gave him permission to cheat. That's a theory of hers.

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Speaker 3: He swore to he would never help my friend again.

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Speaker 3: He says, it's cool. I ain't helping her, no day,

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Speaker 3: no I'm out of this.

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Speaker 2: Help.

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Speaker 3: That night, my husband said he wants my mother to

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Speaker 3: trust him or listen to your mom? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Now here's your options with that. First of all, if.

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Speaker 3: You trust your husband based on the information he's done nothing,

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Speaker 3: you have no information that your husband is cheating. You

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Speaker 3: no late night phone. He ain't hiding his phone from

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Speaker 3: you your girlfriend. You ain't saying your girlfriend acting funny. Now,

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Speaker 3: you ain't saying none of that. Nothing says your husband

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Speaker 3: is cheating. So should I trust him? Okay? Or should

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Speaker 3: I listen to my mama? Yeah, listen to your mama.

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Speaker 3: Go get some divorce papers filed for divorce and put

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Speaker 3: in the paperwork infidelity, and then go to court with

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Speaker 3: and try to find you a new husband, and listen

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Speaker 3: to your mama. Leave him and get a divorce and

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Speaker 3: know when you don't put out irrest, irreconcilable differences, put

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Speaker 3: for you. If you listen to your mama, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: man because your daddy cheated on her.

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