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Speaker 1: Buckle up, hold on time. We gotta fun here. It

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Speaker 1: is the strawberry letta who this is my account? Let's go. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not subject my mom my, Mama. My mom might

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Speaker 1: be a side piece, right, dear Stephen Shirley And oh

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Speaker 1: hey Tommy, that's what it says. Hey Tommy, Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get to it. I don't think so, though, I think

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Speaker 1: you will. I think you'll find something different in this letter.

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Speaker 1: My mom is fifty two years old and she's been

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Speaker 1: dating this guy for ten years. He's very good to her.

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Speaker 1: He winds and dines her and spoils her with gifts

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Speaker 1: and money. He also attends our family events and holiday

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Speaker 1: celebrations with her. Whenever I need anything, he's been there

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Speaker 1: for me. So here's my issue. He lives three hours away,

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Speaker 1: and when he comes to visit my mom, he rarely

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Speaker 1: stays a full weekend with her at our at her house.

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Speaker 1: He has two children, but my mother has never met them.

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Speaker 1: He says he is divorced, but I don't believe him.

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Speaker 1: My mom has visited him many times, but she's only

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Speaker 1: stayed at his condo once. He's a doctor, and he

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Speaker 1: worked long hours and he's often on call on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Because of this, he insists that he stay at a

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Speaker 1: closer hotel, at a hotel closer to the hospital, just

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Speaker 1: in case he has to rush into work. She usually

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Speaker 1: talks to him when he's at his office, and he

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Speaker 1: always calls from a blocked number. He rarely calls her

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Speaker 1: from his cell phone. That just doesn't sound right to me.

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Speaker 1: How is my mom okay with that? And why does

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Speaker 1: she get upset? Why don't Why does she get upset

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Speaker 1: when I bring it up? My mom is a very

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Speaker 1: smart woman, and she's usually a great judge of character.

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Speaker 1: So Code Cracker, please tell me how I can get

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Speaker 1: through to my mom. I don't want her to waste

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Speaker 1: another ten years of her life on this man. Please help. Well,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this. Do you love your mom?

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Speaker 1: That's quite obvious. Uh. You want the best for your mom,

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Speaker 1: just like I'm sure your mom would want the best

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Speaker 1: for you as her daughter. But this is your mom's

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Speaker 1: business and you're her daughter. You know you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to stay out of your mom's business. You can suggest

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Speaker 1: and let her know how you feel, but this is

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Speaker 1: your mom's issue. I mean, you know what's up. I

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Speaker 1: think you're very insightful as a daughter. Guess what your

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Speaker 1: mom knows what's up to? She really does, she knows,

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Speaker 1: but after being in it for ten years, and yes,

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Speaker 1: she's known it for quite some time. Ten years, she's

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Speaker 1: in it. Okay, she's used to it. She doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to stop it. She doesn't want to leave, she doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to change her life. This is a life she's

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Speaker 1: become accustomed to. She's she's become accustomed to and grown into.

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Speaker 1: She's comfortable with this life. As parents, yes, we said

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Speaker 1: examples for our kids, we do your daughter. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: as her daughter, You're you're seeing her actions loudly and clearly.

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Speaker 1: You're wondering where her self respect is. You're wondering how

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Speaker 1: and why she signed up for this situation. Uh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it sounds clear that this man is married. Your mom

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Speaker 1: has never met his kids after ten years. You know,

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Speaker 1: the hotel situation where he stays, the excuse he gives

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Speaker 1: her for staying at the hotel. All of that sounds

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Speaker 1: like this is a married man and your mom is

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Speaker 1: a side piece. But only your mom can decide, you know,

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Speaker 1: whether or not she wants to get out. All you

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Speaker 1: can do is her daughter is suggested, But you know

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Speaker 1: she's a mom, you're the daughter. You got to stay

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Speaker 1: out of her business, Steve, Well, my mom may be

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Speaker 1: the side piece. Well, all right, your mama fifty two

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Speaker 1: years old, she growned, she knows what's going on. She's

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Speaker 1: been dating a guy for ten years. He's very good

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Speaker 1: to her. He winds and downs spoils with gifts and money.

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Speaker 1: He also now here's He also attends how family events

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Speaker 1: a usually a telltale sign that a man is married.

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Speaker 1: When you never see him at the family events, and

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Speaker 1: the telltale sign. But he's at these events, and I

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Speaker 1: know why. Whenever I need anything, he's been there for me.

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Speaker 1: So here's my issue. He lives three hours away. When

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Speaker 1: many times, but she's only stayed at his condo once.

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Speaker 1: He's a doctor. He works long hours and he's often

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Speaker 1: just in case he has to rush you in to work.

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Speaker 1: Good doctor, right now, let's stop right here, back up

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Speaker 1: a little bit. If he's so concerned with being called

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Speaker 1: in to work, therefore he stays at the hottestpital hotel

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Speaker 1: closer to the hospital, why didn't he buy his condo

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Speaker 1: so far away from the hospital. If that's your concern,

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Speaker 1: you would have bought a house closer to the damn hospital.

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Speaker 1: But it's only a concern when you come to visit

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Speaker 1: and you've been to the condo once. That's because all

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Speaker 1: the coast was clear that one time. He lives three

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Speaker 1: at the hospital. That's what that is. He attends family

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Speaker 1: boots and holiday celebrations with hub because he's a doctor,

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Speaker 1: and you can say I'm on call. I'm working over

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Speaker 1: the holidays, so you can make it if you a doctor. Now,

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Speaker 1: somebody back at the house has had to understand this

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Speaker 1: because they are the beneficiary of a wonderful lifestyle. So

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Speaker 1: they putting up with it. Now, your mama is also

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Speaker 1: a beneficiary of a wonderful lifestyle, so she putting up

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Speaker 1: what's going on except his wife. Oh did I say

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Speaker 1: why everybody know what's going on except the wife, because

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Speaker 1: more certainly knows. I hope I'll be bamay just killing

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Speaker 1: this man life perfectly. Let me get back to this letter.

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Speaker 1: Unlike who is not the thanking this person I've ever met,

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Speaker 1: who was insisting that I'm killing this man's wonderful life,

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Speaker 1: I totally disagree. I just hope you never any medical assistance.

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Speaker 1: This man's life will continue just the way it is,

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Speaker 1: because the only one that has to keep going along

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Speaker 1: with this is this letter writer's mama, who is fifty

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Speaker 1: two years old, who already know what's going on, and

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Speaker 1: the reason she's angry with her daughter When her daughter

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Speaker 1: brings it up, she gets upset because now you know

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Speaker 1: what she knows, and she don't want to deal with it,

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Speaker 1: which you she wants to deal with this problem in

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Speaker 1: situation all her own. This man is giving her lifestyle

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Speaker 1: moments of happiness that she's unable to find anywhere else

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Speaker 1: and she'll never find it anywhere else because you'll never

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Speaker 1: be able to meet mister Wright. Why are you dating

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Speaker 1: mister wrong? So look, Tommy, regardless as to how you

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Speaker 1: want to put this, let me try to save your

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Speaker 1: marriage for you mess this up. Joe, stupid Ann just

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Speaker 1: shut up. It is because he always want to be

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Speaker 1: supportive of the cheetah. Then when one of them getting busted.

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Speaker 1: Now he looking at all crazy to talking about what

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Speaker 1: he did wrong. This man right here, this fifty two

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Speaker 1: year old woman knows what's going on with this. Ten

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Speaker 1: years of dating a divorced man and you ain't met

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Speaker 1: his kids yet. Come on, in ten years, you mean

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Speaker 1: that none of the holiday and none of the family reunions,

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Speaker 1: family events have you met this get What do you want?

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Speaker 1: What do the cheering have to do with their relationship?

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Speaker 1: That is cheering, the cheering, it's just another issue which

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Speaker 1: solidifies what the daughter is thinking, that something is wrong

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Speaker 1: that you dated a man for ten years and never

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Speaker 1: I want you all to meet this woman that i'm

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Speaker 1: in love with. I'm considering having a life with her.

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Speaker 1: But he ain't gonna make that announcement because he can't

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Speaker 1: have a life with her because he got a life

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Speaker 1: with your mama. Yep, now you get it, nephew, You're

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Speaker 1: stupid Stephen Man right now now, whatever I need anything,

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Speaker 1: he's always been there for me. Yeah, that's why you've

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Speaker 1: let it go on so long. Oh letter writer, you

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Speaker 1: got something to do with this too, because it was

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Speaker 1: good to you. Na you didn't got a little bit

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Speaker 1: older and you ready to stop. But the problem is

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Speaker 1: it's easy for you to stop because you ain't in

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Speaker 1: love with the doctor, but your mama is. Though. The

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Speaker 1: fact that he lives three away, three hours away, ain't

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Speaker 1: got nothing to do it. He say he divorced, but

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Speaker 1: I don't believe him. Your mama don't know. Your mama

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Speaker 1: know he ain't divorce, but your mama liked what she's eating.

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Speaker 1: He's a doctor, he worked long now, a good doctor.

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Speaker 1: Why does she get upset when I bring it up?

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Speaker 1: I told you that my mom is a very smart woman.

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Speaker 1: Now when she thinking with her heart, only when she

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Speaker 1: thinking with her head, is she's smart? So Cole Cracker,

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Speaker 1: please tell me how I can get this through to

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Speaker 1: this my mom. You can't your mom in love. Your

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Speaker 1: mama noticed. I got news for you. Your mama actually

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Speaker 1: smarter than you. Ain't til she Until you get sick

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Speaker 1: and tired of being sick and tired. Ain't nothing gonna

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Speaker 1: change you. Ain't, Craig, No damn cold all right, Steve, listen,

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