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Letter, all right, nof you, Thank you subject. I'm only
doing it for the money. Dear Stephen Shirley, I've been
married for six years. On Labor Day, my husband had
a motorcycle accident and he has not been able to
work since then. He's a barber and he made great money,
but he's not able to fully use his right arm.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Right now. He's in rehab and getting better.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We've been running through our savings since his accident, and
I've been stressed out about My brother in law came
to town to check on us, and he sent me
to get my hair done and gave me money to
hang out with my girls for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was very sweet, but my husband didn't like it
one bit. He told me to stay away from his
brother because he's sneaky. His brother slept on our couch
for two nights and was never inappropriate with me. On
the day he left, he said he was going to
send me some money so I don't have to look
like what I'm going through. I told him that would
be nice, not expecting him to actually do it. A
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week later, I got a call from his brother saying
he was coming back to town to help me out financially,
but not to say anything to his brother. I met
my brother in law at one of the newer restaurants,
and he told me to get all of our bills
together and he'd pay them for three months. He had
a box of condoms in his coat pocket and he
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said these are for us. He propositioned me for sex
in exchange or paying our bills.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
For three months.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It was like good battling evil because on the real
I've been wanting this man since I met him. I
decided to take him up on his offer so we
could get out of debt. I figured no one will know,
but my conscience is driving me crazy because the sex
is so good. I love my husband and thank god
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he does not suspect anything. Is it too risky or
should I keep it up till the bills are paid?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
First of all, stop all these lies. Okay, that's a
stop all these lies. You love your husband. You love
your husband. You had the nerve to say that in
this letter. You love him?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay. There's so many red flags in this letter.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Is it too risky? Or should I keep it up
till the bills are paid? I'm just really mad at
this letter because you don't want advice from us. You
don't want advice from us. You want to keep on
doing what you're doing. Already, know what it is, you
know all the answers. This is so foul.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're doing it with your your husband's brother. You know
what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You know that your husband told you to stay away
from his brother, and you know why he said, because
he's sneaky. And look what he's doing. And look what
you're doing. You're sleeping with his brother anyway, and you
absolutely know what will happen if your brother, if your
husband finds out. You're not doing this to get your
bills paid. That's a lame excuse. You're doing it because
you want to do it because you like his brother
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and you've wanted him since day one.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well you got him.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now you're locked in, and nothing we could ever say
is going to stop that. So go on, wifey and
sister in law, live your life and pray you don't
get pregnant or worse with this situation. And you're in
pray that your husband doesn't find out and kill you
both when his right arm gets better.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Tommy, you are a rotten spouse. You file, the brother
in law is file. Y'all just file, and then you
got nerve and say something, a boy, your conscience, your conscience,
he ain't got no damn conscious.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, you could care less.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now you're talking about you did it for the money.
But but you contradicting yourself because you said, I've been
wanting this man. That's that's, that's all it is. You've
been wanting this man. This man been want you, all right,
and he dine came.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Down and he plotted on you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He then came down and say, okay, when I come back,
I'm coming back with some money.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'mnna pay them bills and I'm bringing a box of condos.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
All this has been laid out. He didn't He already
didn't figure out what he wanted to do with you.
So you are rotting and at some point your husband
gonna find out about this. It's the lowest thing you
could possibly do. This is brother, This is brother. How
much lower can you get? And he know his brother
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ain't worth for damn he done told you. My brother sneaky,
been sneaky since we got here on or my brother
Ben sneak already know you. Really he shouldn't even let
your his brother stay in his house. That if he
that sneak, he shouldn't even let him. It wouldn't have
been no two nights on my couch. No no, no, no.
I'll help you get a room somewhere, but you ain't
staying at my house. But it didn't even matter. He
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stayed at the house because you've been wanting that man.
You been wont that man? It's somebody that brother you
been wanting that. Now some money go with it too,
All this looks even better. Meanwhile, your huband over there
care he's right on and it ain't working. He can't
cut nobody have he all in trouble. I swear when
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he get that right on back together. I hope he
beat you. I hope he beat his brother ass, I
really do. I hope he really do. This is when
you cut somebody's hair while they sleep. He need to
do everything he can to hear raggedy ass brother. Your
brother ain't worth her dawn, And I'm not. I'm not
even tripping on what you're doing, which is wrong. I'm
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tripping on the sack. It's his brother, it's his brother,
it's his flesh and blood.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You didn't. You didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You ain't nobody. You couldn't went mess with somebody at
the bob shot me his brother. It's the lowest you
can be. You didn't done it. You're gonna screw up
your You're gonna screw up your marriage.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's about you. Might as well gonna count that out.
It's over.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That's a wrap because you over there with the brother,
and the brother ain't gonna stop.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
This is a game to him. He don't care. You
don't care about how many lives he messed up. Y'all.
The relationship is shot. This is Johnny. Oh, you let
me just go and say this shirt. You are not
ready to love. And I'm just gonna leave it right there, you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, It is time now to recap the Strawberry Letter.
The subject is I'm only doing it for the money.
A woman wrote in she's been married for six years.
On Labor Day, her husband had a motorcycle accident. He
messed up his right arm. Why is that important Because
he's a barber and he needs his right arm to
work well. He hasn't been able to work, so the
bills have been piling up. The brother stepped in, the
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husband's brother, the wife's brother in law stepped in and say,
you know what, I'll help you guys pay your bills
and all that. Uh huh, yeah, I'll help you. So
he gave the wife some money to go get her
nails done and everything, hang out with her girls, and
he came back. He had he asked the wife to
bring her a box of the bills so he could
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pay them. And then he's put a box of condoms
out there and said, and this is for us, because
this is.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Payment for me paying your bills.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So he wants to sleep with her, so and he
would give her the money to pay the bills.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yes, Tommy, was it a box of three or a
box of twelve?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Which one you think?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Twelve twelve because it's three months. Anyway, she took him
up on his offer. And now all of a sudden,
she's feeling guilty about, you know, her husband and all that.
But in reality, she's always wanted the brothers since day one.
So now she's saying, she thanks God and she loves
her husband, and is it too risky? Should he keep
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it up so that the bills can get paid?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So, junior, that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
What you think?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
How much in BB are we? How twenty thousand?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Sicky with one hundred million? How much?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Because then if we're a million, I understand, if we
just talking about ten thousand, this is don't make no sense.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now, this doesn't make no sense because.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You got to think about it.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I know he's going through rehab everything. First of all,
I feel for the hood because I'm a sick person,
I understand.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But you don't have any brothers.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
God, yeah, but you know what the fact you're gonna
do it to your brother in law.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, they had a really raggedy Christmas.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Y'all know that, y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Do you understand las given was trash?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I understand.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
We just got through the holidays. You know it was trash.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Right now, Margaret sitting over there with his arm that
ain't working on the right side.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All he can do is just turn left. He just
keep on tap.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
He don't have this all working. All he do is
turning left. Cut the right side ain't working. And you
slept with my brother for these bills? How much in
that are we?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
This don't ain't no sense, No, no, the bills?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
How much bills. Are we talking about how much did
the light field at this house? How much he's got
it's got to be uh, he had, he made it.
But he's coming back to be in the barber. He
gonna get there. He's gonna get there. He's just got
to go through rehab.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I've been there. I've been to rehab before. I know
how long it takes. I got it.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I'm staying this man like this here. Every time you
come in the house after leave would sleep with his brother.
You gotta look at the whole right side ain't work.
He keep gooding you welcome home to the left. Everything
left on the right, it's work. Nothing on the rightest
work where you.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Be, where you been?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
To the left though, where you been, where you been,
where you been? Everything is to the left.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
He's trying to work on the right, trying to get
back there. You know you slept with the.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Brother, and you keep coming home with money.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You ain't working that much.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
We know how much you make. We know you know
you can't hold down this whole house. What are you
doing to come home with all this money?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
What did you doing? But how would you feel if
this was your brother?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Though?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I mean your brother? He told you. The man told
you do not trust my brother. He's sneaky.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah you did anyway, Flynn try Flynn.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, this is terrible.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I wouldn't even hold your hand if he's saying grace.
If I know this, I'm not holding your hand. What
I was saying, grace, you ain't gonna get me struck.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You should he now start trying to cut hand with
his left hand. I'm just saying so we can get back.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
In the game.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
He needs to catch him while he's sleep because they're
all left handed, so it's easy for us.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm not I still would happen. So you're emphasized with
the husband.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
It couldn't his had any kind of way. I want
you with this fold of barm owners I'm turning to
the left though I know everything the left.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
His right arm is not working.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
There's gonna be some upside of haircut man load down.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
This is yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I don't know this.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I ain't know the type of women exist. Now your
brother in law.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, let me sit up there at my mama house
and we gotta say grace.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I'm holding your hand on yourself with my brother.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
No First of all, he's not.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Holding two hands. He ain't got one, so he got
we got left off.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That right off is not holding nobody's hands.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Rehab until he gets finished with rehab. Rehab.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
But I'm telling you it's struggle because it's his off hand.
He's a dominant right barber. He can't fade with his
with his left hand. He's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, Well, I hope he only has one brother. That's
what I hope.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
The fact that the matter is you knew it, you
admitted it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I've been Yeah, he.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Just man, you married your own brother, You had an accident,
and you're gonna leave him out here like this and
do this to this man? How you want us to
respect you?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We don't care about you, lady over us. We don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah for Trifler, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Think about man.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I wish man.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Do you know I prompt you if mamare did anything
closer this, it's over that day. Yeah, I find out
since I found out more arm airthing, I'm putting all
your clothes out with his left arm.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Left the fugitive.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
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I bet he'd be struggling in the bathroom.
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