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Speaker 1: for you here it is go Berry letter subject so

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Speaker 1: you're the only one that can cheat. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I have known my partner for five years and we

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Speaker 1: Everything was fine for four years, and then our relationship

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Speaker 1: we were on our break, and we decided that seeing

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Speaker 1: other people was not our primary focus for the breakup.

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Speaker 1: The breakup was for us to work on ourselves and

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Speaker 1: then come back together to be a real family. Well,

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Speaker 1: not long after the breakup, I had sex with an

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Speaker 1: old friend. I told my ex about it because I

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Speaker 1: not go as planned, and now he is furious with me.

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Speaker 1: He said this was the worst thing I could have

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Speaker 1: done to him. I understand that he was hurt, but

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Speaker 1: how could he be this mad about it? I forgive

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Speaker 1: I forgave him for cheating on me numerous times, but

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Speaker 1: me ever. Again, he says, besides us doing the necessary

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Speaker 1: things for our child, I am dead to him. This

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Speaker 1: is an awful double standard. I am not a cheater.

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Speaker 1: This happened after we broke up. I'm sure he has

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Speaker 1: can do about it. So why can't he forgive me?

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Stephen Shirley? Please help me figure this out? Mmmmmm.

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Speaker 1: You might think this is an awful double standard, like

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Speaker 1: just simply can't do what they do. It's some sort

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Speaker 1: of unwritten rule. We forgive, we take them back and

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Speaker 1: all that. But very very very rarely do they take

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Speaker 1: us back after cheating, Okay, very rarely. And for you

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Speaker 1: to so boldly sit him down and tell him that

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Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. So you know now you can

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Speaker 1: that's how it goes. Okay, you want us to help

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Speaker 1: long as we can remember, that's been the double standard.

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Speaker 1: So you got to face the music. I'm sorry. This

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Speaker 1: relationship is pretty much over. Yeah, you guys were broken

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't work like that. If you did it,

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have told him you did it. I know,

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Speaker 1: you know you want to be honest and all of that,

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Speaker 1: but he's just not going to take it well. As

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Speaker 1: you can see, this man said you're dead to him.

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Speaker 1: You're dead to him, all right. He says he doesn't

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Speaker 1: So I mean, what more do you need. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound like he's taking you back. It doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: to take you back. I suggest you know, you look

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Speaker 1: to move on. Steve Well, I count it almost twenty

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Speaker 1: out what's wrong. You've known your partner for five years.

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Speaker 1: Y'all got a child together. In the beginning, your partner

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Speaker 1: it Ready break on three one two three break Well.

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Speaker 1: Not long after the breakup, I had sex with an

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Speaker 1: ain't even gonna lie to you. Good. Right after you

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Speaker 1: because I felt like open communication was been official for us.

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Speaker 1: You stupid, Let's just be real. This is the stupidest

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Speaker 1: Y'all understand something with men. Don't don't do that again.

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Speaker 1: What you told him? What you have sex with old friend.

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Speaker 1: He didn't find out you told him. Oh God, you

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Speaker 1: crush stupid, stupid on so many levels. And see, ladies,

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Speaker 1: the time. This ain't the time for the truth. This

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Speaker 1: I ain't got no problem. I snapped it off so fast,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen anybody, no nobody. What about your old friend?

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Speaker 1: Don't have no nosre? Oh my friend died. All right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and have part two of Steve's

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Speaker 1: responded eight at twenty three after the hour. The subject

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Speaker 1: Lady been with a man five years, they got a baby.

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Speaker 1: He cheated on them several times, but she worked it out.

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Speaker 1: Here go to third stupid thing. Because I felt like

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Speaker 1: could have done to him. That's the truth. You can

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Speaker 1: cannot do. You can't break off that cookie and give

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Speaker 1: it to nobody else. I don't give what. How are

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Speaker 1: you about it? Don't take that nowhere? Else? What? What?

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Speaker 1: How that together? I don't know. I'm just trying to

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Speaker 1: Don't take this cookie, break off a piece and get

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Speaker 1: Did he come here? Come another stupid statement? But how

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Speaker 1: Are you crazy? I forgave him for cheating on me

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Speaker 1: Whoa he yeah. When a man tell you that, ain't

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Speaker 1: not Jesus. Only Jesus raised it dead. We don't raise

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Speaker 1: you get to roll the stone away. You come back

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Speaker 1: on the third day, you ain't coming back. This is

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Speaker 1: an awful double standard. And it's a double standard that

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Speaker 1: he didn't create. This double standard, like Shirley said, been

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Speaker 1: this happened after we broke up. What y'all broke up,

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Speaker 1: y'all said, y'all wasn't gonna see nobody. As soon as

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Speaker 1: You just said, y'all wasn't gonna see nobody. Yeah, ain't

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Speaker 1: nothing I could do about it. So why can't he

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Speaker 1: forgive me? Because he a man? And we tripped like yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we ain't made right, We ain't wrapped tight. That's

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Speaker 1: the way it is. Am I wrong? Now? You're not

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Speaker 1: And there lies the problem. And I don't know why

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Speaker 1: said I'm dead to him. I don't know what ghosts

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Speaker 1: Because him? Man? Am I wrong? Now? You ain't wrong?

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shelley, Please help me figure this out. It ain't

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Speaker 1: nothing to figure. You ain't got to figure nothing because

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Speaker 1: you're dead. People don't fig it, Dad, People don't feeling

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Speaker 1: this ain't hidden. Figures ain't now. I'm just gonna go

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Speaker 1: to heaven for forgiveness. To gon go to heaven. You

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Speaker 1: is dead to me, Oh God, Steve sitting up in hell.

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Speaker 1: Joe crazy itself, This ignorant letter, It's all could have

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Speaker 1: You would rather know the truth, Well we don't. That's y'all.

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Speaker 1: You ain't never heard a man say, well, I'd rather

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Speaker 1: to the grave supposed to it's going. Yeah, we're not

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Speaker 1: fitting to brain this up. I've asked the Lord for forgiveness.

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Speaker 1: He gave it to me. I'm not an explaining sitting

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Speaker 1: pay right. If you want to, I swear to God,

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Speaker 1: I kill you. I'm already kill this lady. I kill

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Speaker 1: you too. This is not about you. Mad. If you

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Speaker 1: try to repeat some of the stuff out and do

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Speaker 1: it for time. I don't even want nobody. I don't

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Speaker 1: even I don't even want to open casting. When I've done,

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Speaker 1: you pitch up with me and check the things out.

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Speaker 1: Told somebody to get the figure dang on his ass

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Speaker 1: right there? All right, listen, we gotta get out of here.

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