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Speaker 1: Thank you, ne for you. Subject. He repeated everything I

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Speaker 1: said about her. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a single mother

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Speaker 1: to a seven year old boy, so I'm working two

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Speaker 1: jobs to keep him in private school. His father is

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Speaker 1: in and out of rehab, so my son barely knows him.

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Speaker 1: My son has a great relationship with his daddy's mother,

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Speaker 1: who we call Granny. We love Grannie and she's my

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Speaker 1: biggest supporter. My own mom doesn't like to baby said,

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Speaker 1: I'm only twenty eight, so Grannie tells me to drop

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Speaker 1: my son off with her so I can enjoy my twenties.

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Speaker 1: Grannie loves music, reality TV show and playing her numbers.

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Speaker 1: She lives in the worst neighborhood in the city, but

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Speaker 1: nobody messes with Granny because she once shot at her neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Grannie's house is always nasty, and when my son was

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Speaker 1: old enough to realize it, he started asking questions like

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Speaker 1: why is Grannie, why does Grannie have trash all ways

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Speaker 1: around the trash can, and why does Grannie have spots

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Speaker 1: on her floors. He was always excited to go see

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Speaker 1: her because her house was so different than his. One day,

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Speaker 1: he told me that he liked our house better because

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Speaker 1: it smells good and his Grannie's doesn't. I never paid

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Speaker 1: much attention to how I responded to him, and I

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Speaker 1: never realized I was shading Grannie. I was so hurt

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Speaker 1: to find out he was telling Grannie everything I say

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Speaker 1: about her. He told Grannie to keep his backpack zipped

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Speaker 1: with him. He told Grannie that I told him to

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Speaker 1: eat the snack's ipack for him and to smell everything

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Speaker 1: else before he eats it. He told her that he

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Speaker 1: can't lie on the floor or use her blankets. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of other stuff that he repeated, and

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Speaker 1: I feel so bad for putting Grannie down. When Granny's

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Speaker 1: the only person that helps me. Grannie is not even mad,

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Speaker 1: and that makes it worse. How do I make it

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Speaker 1: up to Grannie? And why is parenting so hard? Well,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. You're right, parenting is hard. There's

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Speaker 1: no playbook and it's on the job training. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, it is. You sound like an excellent parent.

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Speaker 1: But it's just a nature of kids to be honest

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Speaker 1: and say what's on their minds. They always tell the truth.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what a filter is yet at seven,

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Speaker 1: he's just innocently repeating what he heard. But now that

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Speaker 1: you know that, you know he's over there running his mouth,

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Speaker 1: you could take some action. I know you meant what

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Speaker 1: you said about Grannie's nasty house, but you didn't intend

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Speaker 1: for it to be mean, and you were looking out

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Speaker 1: for your son so he wouldn't bring back bugs or anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Grannie must be a good person because she

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Speaker 1: is a great support system for you. She's the only

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Speaker 1: one you said, and that's truly a blessing. So if

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Speaker 1: I were you, even though you say she didn't get

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Speaker 1: mad about it, I would still apologize to Granny. Let

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Speaker 1: her you know. I'm sure she knows you know by now,

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Speaker 1: I would apologize to her for what you said and

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Speaker 1: ask her if she needs help cleaning up or something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you can afford it, you can hire

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Speaker 1: a cleaning crew. You can go over there yourself and

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Speaker 1: help her clean it up and get her house together.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure that would make her feel good.

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Speaker 1: It's for your son and her. The same products you

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Speaker 1: use to make your house smell so good, use it

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Speaker 1: in Grannie's house.

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Speaker 2: Then you would have to worry.

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Speaker 1: You won't have to worry about him being in a nasty,

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Speaker 1: messy house when he's not with you, when he's over there.

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Speaker 1: And please tell your son that what you guys talk

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Speaker 1: most parents do.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Steve, Well, before I get start, let me just

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Speaker 3: clarify something Shirley said, get a cleaning crew. I'd have

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Speaker 3: got no money for no damn cleaning crew in this letter,

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Speaker 3: and you can't afford it. She already says she working

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Speaker 3: two jobs, keep a little ragged ass boy in his

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Speaker 3: private school and his daddy in and out of rehab

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Speaker 3: because he over there smoking weed and can't stop snorting cocaine,

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Speaker 3: and all this is, so he in rehab it. He

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Speaker 3: don't really know his daddy, but his mama taking care

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Speaker 3: of that'sho the letter about no hell. Now where your hell?

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Speaker 3: You see a chance to buy some damn cleaning crew

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Speaker 3: at She can't get no cleaning crew over there, Shelly,

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Speaker 3: she's shrugged it. She's a single mother. Listen to the letter.

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Speaker 3: I'm a single mother, seven year old boy. I'm working

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Speaker 3: two jobs, keep him in private school. Ain't nobody working

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Speaker 3: two jobs getting no cleaning crew in the house. Were

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Speaker 3: trying to get this little ignorant ass boy educated. And

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Speaker 3: you need to hear him getting educated because he's stupid,

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Speaker 3: dumb ass over there telling it. I bet he won't

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Speaker 3: tell it, no moto. I couldn't repeat nothing at nobody's

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Speaker 3: house anyway. And in his daddy his father is in

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Speaker 3: the in and out of rehab, so my son badly

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Speaker 3: knows him. Told you, But he got a great relationship

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Speaker 3: with his daddy's mother, and she's my biggest supporter. My

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Speaker 3: own mom don't like the babysit. Damn mom, I'm only

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Speaker 3: twenty eight, So granny tells me drop my son off

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Speaker 3: with her so I can enjoy my twenties. That's a

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Speaker 3: good grandmother. But she hood though now granted, little music.

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Speaker 3: She and that got bb king on. She and that

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Speaker 3: playing ladder mold little Milton, your seven year old boy

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Speaker 3: is probably with the seven year old boy reason he

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Speaker 3: telling everything because he had the childhood I had. He's

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Speaker 3: probably the most depressed seven year old up at the

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Speaker 3: school because when your grandmama and them be listening to blues,

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Speaker 3: it affects you, just like rap affects this culture today.

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Speaker 3: The blues affected me when I was growing up.

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Speaker 2: I'm so alone. I'm so alone. You know all that

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Speaker 2: right there? She left me, Yes she did.

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Speaker 3: I got another if I got another, if you know,

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Speaker 3: I was in the blues. So everything to me was

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Speaker 3: the blues. My report call was the blues. The teacher

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Speaker 3: called my house to report me. It was the blues. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: she lives, the grandmama live in the worst neighborhood in

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Speaker 3: the city. But nobody messing with granted, because she shot somebody.

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Speaker 3: This is the type of grandmother. You won't live in

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Speaker 3: the hood shooting people. But your boy is over there

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Speaker 3: running his mouth. When we come back, I will tell

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Speaker 3: you the things you have said about this woman that

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Speaker 3: has gotten back to her.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, hang on, 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: subject of today's strawberry letter. He repeated everything I said

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Speaker 1: about her. 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. The subject he repeated everything I

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Speaker 1: said her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a problem because this lady, who is

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Speaker 3: her ex husband's her baby's daddy's mother, is a good grandmother.

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Speaker 3: She takes care of the baby, she watches out for

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Speaker 3: him and her own mother. She's twenty eight. Don't like babysitting.

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Speaker 3: So the lady in this letter, the grandmother, is your

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Speaker 3: biggest supporter. The problem is your son been over there

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Speaker 3: running his mouth and then told her everything you said.

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Speaker 3: You didn't mean for it to get back, but you

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Speaker 3: you call yourself protecting your son because at the end

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Speaker 3: of the letter you said, why is parenting so hard?

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Speaker 3: Now you've been over there talking about grandmama to you boy.

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Speaker 2: Now you said stuff like.

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Speaker 3: Blow on the cookies before you eat them, you know,

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Speaker 3: stuff like that for the stuff that you really don't

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Speaker 3: you know, when it's bad time sleep in your clothes.

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Speaker 3: Just sleep in your clothes, you know, you saying stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know, he ain't over there sleeping in Levi eyes.

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Speaker 2: And Corduroy's shirts.

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Speaker 3: He's sleeping in his school clothes because you don't want

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Speaker 3: him to get them bed bugs on him or nothing

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Speaker 3: like that. You done told the boy read all the

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Speaker 3: expiration dates on everything in that refrigerator. Now you got

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Speaker 3: a seven year old in there trying to read an

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Speaker 3: expiration date on some damn mayonnaise. You know, the mayonnaise

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Speaker 3: is expired. Everybody done had an expired job of mayonnaise

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Speaker 3: in there.

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Speaker 2: It's in now.

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Speaker 3: He's got a little bit left in it, little coloration

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Speaker 3: on the lid. Everybody didne had that. Don't go out

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Speaker 3: there by the trash. The rats a get you.

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Speaker 1: What.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to say that at the hood. Don't

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Speaker 3: go out there by that trash the rats to get you.

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Speaker 3: This is stuff, she's saying to the boy. Okay, you know,

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Speaker 3: wash all the fruit twice. This little boy over here

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Speaker 3: is in the child labor camp. He doing so much

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Speaker 3: stuff here in that double washing fruit and everything. This

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Speaker 3: little boy right here, he go over granted his house.

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Speaker 3: He just had a sweatshop. Don't put that silverware in

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Speaker 3: your mouth now. How the boy supposed to eat now?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: You done told him to take all these little plastic

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Speaker 3: spoons and forks in that with you. Don't eat off

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Speaker 3: the silverware now, you just send him over there with

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Speaker 3: a dish rag in his backpack. He got to wash

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Speaker 3: each each dish for he eat. So you thoroughly messed

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Speaker 3: his boy's head up about his grandmother. But he loves

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Speaker 3: his grandmoma, and his grandmama loves him now. He done

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Speaker 3: told her this. But the problem you got the shaka

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Speaker 3: to you is she ain't mad. See's the hood It's

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Speaker 3: kind of hard to piss off hood Grandmama's because they

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Speaker 3: have seen it all. You ain't brand new. She know

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Speaker 3: the house smell, She know it's trash out there. She

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Speaker 3: know the house raggedy, She polled, She run numbers and

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Speaker 3: she ain't hitting. She know it's hard over there. But

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Speaker 3: she got love though, that's it, and she loving on

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Speaker 3: this grand boy. And your mama won't even take care

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Speaker 3: of it. So I'd rather have this hood grandmama than

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Speaker 3: to have your mama, because she ain't even trying to

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Speaker 3: help you out. She don't like babysitting. That's why you're

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Speaker 3: over there talking about stuff. Quit saying stuff about the

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Speaker 3: lady's house. Yeah, your house smelled good. But but but

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Speaker 3: you can't get no help but from the hood grandmama.

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Speaker 3: You know, while grandmama got spots on the floor cause

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Speaker 3: the carpet need cleaning. That's why spots on the floor.

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Speaker 3: And he's always excited to go see her because her

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. The man, I don't go over here.

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Speaker 3: You can climb on grandmama couch. She don't even care.

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Speaker 3: Then one day he told you that he like your

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Speaker 3: house better because it smelled good and his granny don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: grandmama house always have little twain to it, you know,

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Speaker 3: always had little a little different.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: You know your grandmama house smelled a little different. You know,

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Speaker 3: I do remember there was I look back on it

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Speaker 3: wasn't a mouth in there, No damn boy, I'll tell

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Speaker 3: you that. You go granted his house and find anything.

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Speaker 3: But wasn't no damn mouthing there. I didn't seen ants

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Speaker 3: I go over my grandmama house man, and she puts

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Speaker 3: cinnamon down by the door. Cinnamon stop ants. If you

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Speaker 3: they get I'm telling you right now, next time you

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Speaker 3: outside had a cookout, just go in the house. Get

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Speaker 3: from that. Whoa wow, Yeah, that's the old cinnamon. Sprinkle

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Speaker 3: And if you don't want flies, and here's another thing

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Speaker 2: It'll keep flies away. If you're outside of.

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Speaker 3: The picnic, a bowl of apple side of vinegar and

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Speaker 3: If you don't want flies in your house, take a

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Speaker 3: zip lock bag, put it, fill it up with water,

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Speaker 3: put a cold hanger through it and put a penny

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Speaker 3: it reminds them also of a nest.

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