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Speaker 1: this one today, and I guarantee you we haven't had

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Speaker 1: Subject when role playing goes too far. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I am in my early twenties and I'm dating a

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Speaker 1: guy that I've known since high school. He was my

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Speaker 1: He had a longtime girlfriend and they broke up last year,

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Speaker 1: so I made the first move to see if he

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Speaker 1: months now. He is a good boyfriend, and the sex

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Speaker 1: was as good as I thought it would be. Everything

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Speaker 1: about him was pretty normal until recently when I noticed

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Speaker 1: he had a couple of furry animal costumes in his closet.

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Speaker 1: We were lying in his bed talking and I noticed them,

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Speaker 1: so I jokingly asked if they were some old Halloween costumes.

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Speaker 1: He said no and jumped out of bed to show

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Speaker 1: was his favorite and he loves to wear it during sex.

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Speaker 1: Then he asked me if he could try it out

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Speaker 1: That was a few nights ago, and we have not

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Speaker 1: discussed this incident at all. I do like him, but

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Speaker 1: this has shadowed the dreamy image I've had of him

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Speaker 1: for all these years. I'm not into this kind of weird,

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Speaker 1: costumes for sex, or if or if it was just

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Speaker 1: a one time thing to see if I'd like it,

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Speaker 1: or should I just leave them now and find a

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Speaker 1: man that's not crazy please help. I told you we've

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Speaker 1: never had a letter like this. Okay, I gotta tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of a thing. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: a thing, the whole furry costume thing. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: the thing where where in certain circles in they're called

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Speaker 1: furries and furry circles they have like fury. Yeah it's

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Speaker 1: not I didn't say it was a black thing. I

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Speaker 1: didn't say that. They have fury conventions, they have furry parties,

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Speaker 1: all of this kind of stuff. Well you've been to

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Speaker 1: some of these parts. Oh, I'm not into this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've heard about things like this. I just have I

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Speaker 1: don't know, on YouTube. You heard about it on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I've heard about this. Surely you'll just no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you gotta type that in. Yeah, you gotta type it

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Speaker 1: in because I've heard about him before. Yeah, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll send it. I'm gonna let you see it right now.

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Speaker 1: It's called fury, they're called furries. But I just can't

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Speaker 1: help to laugh at it. Help but laugh at this

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Speaker 1: because the visual of him barking in a dog costume

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Speaker 1: is just funny. I'm sorry, it's just funny. I'm not

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Speaker 1: Otherwise pretty harmless, right, That's all he does is put

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Speaker 1: and maybe he'll open up to you. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't like it, it's okay not to

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Speaker 1: like it. If you're not comfortable, you have to let

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Speaker 1: what do this? You guys have only been together for

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Speaker 1: to let him know that you don't like it. Ste

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Speaker 1: let me pictures of fairies. I got it. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: I mean where we're going up First, we got dog

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Speaker 1: You know, It's like drugs. If you take enough astra

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Speaker 1: As we're really gonna be outside killing deal, wrapping up

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Speaker 1: in real deer skin? Where we're going high school sweetheart.

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Speaker 1: She had a crush on this man. He was dating

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Speaker 1: reminds me of a song. Why must I feel like that?

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Speaker 1: Why must I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog

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Speaker 1: in me? This is a story about it, dog famous stuff. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: because he got more than one suit hanging in there.

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Speaker 1: He got a few, and there ain't costumes. There is

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Speaker 1: few nights ago, and we ain't disgusted at all. I

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Speaker 1: I had to him for all these years. You didn't

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Speaker 1: know what he was. Girl. He got way more there

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Speaker 1: a dog suiting there, a monkey suiting there. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: at the age tomorrow next week. Then he't gonna be

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Speaker 1: there with the big ass shoes on heat goofy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not understanding he got he got feathery too. He

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Speaker 1: gonna be Donald Dug one day. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. I don't have no suggestions for you.

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Speaker 1: who under that? You just first, it's not good. You

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Speaker 1: ain't He supposed to be attracted the person, but attracted

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Speaker 1: if she should use her voice, you're not into this

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Speaker 1: and that's not the guy for you. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: I see. I'm a neck it man myself. I've done

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Speaker 1: some of my greatest moments have been naked. Nothing to be.

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to sock on God, that's too much.

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Speaker 1: Why I can get that other damn socker I got.

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Speaker 1: I need my toes right, yea, no, because I need

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Speaker 1: my best work, NIKKEI. Now I see this first suit

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Speaker 1: big foot in Hill. Yeah, I can't do it. No,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. I don't even like this letter. And surely's

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Speaker 1: like leave him. Yeah, if you're not into it, just yeah,

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Speaker 1: get get this got fetishes like that, and fetishes is real?

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Speaker 1: Ain't you spitting fur out three foot later? Ain't you

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Speaker 1: show guys on Viceland called furries fandom, not fetish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what on Vice Land, TV Land and no other day.

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Speaker 1: I don't give way. Just like Jaguars and Shark. I

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Speaker 1: the other day, Shirley, which one what's the name of

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Speaker 1: that movie? With a man slept with everybody? It's serious

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Speaker 1: don't see how it happened. Well, he slept with a

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Speaker 1: And he was he was saying to this guy was

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Speaker 1: a master of manipulator. I'm just telling you how he

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. Back to the Okay, yeah, yeah, letter.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's starting this little boy with this damn monkey suit

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Speaker 1: on the dog suit, dog suit, monkey suit, cheetah suit.

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Speaker 1: What do you want? You can't come in the bedroom

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Speaker 1: damn monkey suit. Yeah, she doesn't like it. Yeah. The

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