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Oh okay, ladies and Gentlemen's time for the Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Put your hands together for my girl, Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Happen all right?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Subject, Thank you, junior. Subject, I'm tired of sneaking around
with her. Here Stephen Shirley. I'm a twenty seven year
old single man, and I would love to stop sneaking
around with the love of my life. I've been friends
with my secret lover for twenty years, and our parents
are best friends. Our families did everything together for over
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twenty years, but they have no idea about our secret romance.
She and I have been best friends since we were seven.
By the time we turned thirteen, she was blossoming into
a woman and I liked it. She was curious about
my body and I enjoyed caressing hers. When she let
me on her seventeenth birthday, she told me she was
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ready to have sex and she.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wanted me to be her first.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That was the moment I had been waiting for, so
we both had sex for the first time. I fell
in love with her by the time I was eighteen.
We continued to secretly have sex throughout college, and now
that we're grown, she still likes to sneak around with me.
I've dated other girls, but no other woman compares to her.
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I have asked her to be my girlfriend so many times,
but she is afraid of what her parents will think.
She's been dating a guy for almost two years and
we still have sex often. But we still have sex often.
She's told me that she's not had sex with him,
and I believed her until recently, when she told me
that he's talking about marriage.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
My heart started.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Beating fast, and I panicked and poured out all of
my feeling to her and said I wanted to be
with her and marry her. She said we could never
be together because although we are not blood relatives, our
families are linked so closely it's like we're related. I
yelled at her that I don't make love to my relatives.
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Why won't she give us a chance. I don't want
to lose her for good, So what should I do? Wow,
you don't want to lose her for good? Well, she's gone.
I mean you've already lost her. She never wanted you
for anything more than a side piece anyway. Everything was
always in secret. Okay, she's never given you any reason
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to think otherwise. All you have to do is listen
to her and read between her lines. You are her
side piece, her jump off, her play thing, and that's it.
I mean, there are clues throughout the letter.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You say.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now that we're grown, she still likes to sneak around
with you. Yeah, she wants to keep you a secret.
She won't date you because she's afraid of what her
parents might think. Really, but she's grown. You just said
you guys are grown. You've told her you want to
be with her and you want to marry her.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Still nothing from her. Nothing. She's thinking about marrying some
other guy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
She said, you guys could never be together because your relatives.
Excuse after excuse after excuse with this one. She knows
you're not related, but she's using that so she can
keep things as they are, so you can be her
little secret.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, you know she just wants you for sex. I
hope you know that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And because you're in love with her, you just keep
giving her what you want, what she wants whenever she
wants it, which means she gets to have you and
her fiance. She gets her cake in she can eat
it too. Who is this woman? I mean, what is
this old one on you? She has got to move
on from her, you do. I know you've dated other women,
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but you can't stop comparing them to her. You got
to stop that. That's the way you move on. I
mean you got to step back and take a look
at what's really what's really going on here.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I just say, wake up, stay woke.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
After you wake up from this dream you're in about her,
then maybe hopefully you'll stop being her little you know, secret,
her little guinea pig, her little plaything, and you can
move on from there.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Steve one hundred percent completely disagree. Hell boy, come on now,
this opportunity pilp. Don't let me walk you through this thing.
I'm tired of sneak it around with her. Twenty seven
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year old single man, you want to stop sneaking around
with the love of your life?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
What come on?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Do you know how many women are dying to hear that.
That's why I know we got a chance here. I've
been friends with my secret love for over twenty years.
I didn't know what the hell was going on here.
Seven three best friends, our family did everything together for
twenty years, but they had no idea about our secret romans.
Now this wasn't. Let her take a little bit of
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a delusional turn. She and I have been best friends
since we were seven. By the time we turned thirteen,
she was blossoming into a woman.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
No, dog dog No, she wasn't flo.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Doggie, No, she wasn't Shellie. You was flat chesting.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, keep with thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, Rick at Monica over there, shaking her head. This
line healthy. Let she say that. For by the time
and she was timed to thirteen, she was blossoming into
the woman.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
And I like it. Dog No, she wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
She was kids about my body and I enjoyed Carress
and Herris. And on seventeenth birthday, she was ready to
have sex. She wanted me to be her first. She
will get that was the moment I had been waiting for.
I do so we both had sex for the first time.
I fell in love with her by the time I
was eighteen. We secretly had sex throughout college, and now
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we've grown, she still likes to sneak around with me.
I've dated other girls, but no other woman come pass
to her. I've asked her to be my girlfriend many times.
She's afraid of what her parents will think when we
come back. Well, wait fin to get down.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
We'll have part two of Steve's response to the Strawberry
letter coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour
subject I'm tired of sneaking around with her. We'll get
back into it right after this.
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All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We totally disagree on this one.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, a little dude been in completely friends with this
girl since they was seven day twenty seven. Now turn thirteen,
she started developing into a woman. I tried to tell
this boy in this letter she wasn't a woman at thirteen.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Y'all, sir got you.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Seventeen, y'all had sex for the first time for the
both of y'allf you fell in love with her. By eighteen,
y'all had sex all throughout college, secretly without your parents knowing.
I don't know how cool these damn parents he is.
Why they wouldn't be alright with their babies linking up together.
I don't know what this damn relationship is y'all parents got,
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but it's too big. In this letter, y'all had sex
for the first time. This was the moment I've been
waiting for. Yes, yes it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Is, boy.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So we both had sex for the first time. I
fell in love with her by the time I was eighteen.
We had sex throughout college, and now we're grown. She
still likes to sneak around with me. Wow, updated other
girls here we go, but no other woman compares to her.
No thing compass talk to you. You knew aw man,
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that was the jam boy. See, they got songs about this.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I just need to get to the court us.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Boom boh.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Not money, you've been gone.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Oh yeah, but nothing nothing to take away?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Here we go sh come.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Nothing compend do you nothing?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Whoa baby? Whoaby whobby.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's been so lonely.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Without Thank you so much for that day.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I just wanted to drop that in there, because back
in the day we wrote songs about situations, and this boy.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Says nothing compass, no I thing, come pans se you
that boy met this man.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I just wanted to drop that in the middle of
the letter.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Anyway, man, I've asked her to be my girlfriend so
many times, but she's afraid of what her parents would think.
She's been dating a guy for two years, but we
still have sex often. She told me she ain't having
sex with him. I believed her till recently when she
told me he's talking about marriage he would go. My
heart started beating fast. I paniced. I poured all my
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feelings to her, and I said I wanted to be
with her.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I want to marry her.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
She said we could never be together because although we
are not blood relatives. Our families are linked together so closely,
it's like we related. I yelled at her, I don't
make love to my relatives. Why won't she give us
a chance? I don't want to lose her for good?
So what should I do? And we got to go
to wall? Baby, We got to fight, young homie twenty
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seven and listen to somebody that's been the wall before.
You got to fight for this love of your life.
You can't let this poke ass do win? Who is he?
And I said it right, you can't let this poke
ass do win?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
She?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
No, yes, she do. Shirley, she just got this thing
with this family. She won't him. She just don't know
how to explain it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
All this sneaking around and now she didn't have this
boyfriend for two years, but she's still been sneaking around
with the secret lover. She can't explain it because she
in love with this boy. She don't just love what
he do side but the side piece got her turn
up though. See because all through the relationships, she still
got to get the side piece. It's because the side
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piece is really the main course. He ain't a side dish.
He the folk piece now see Charlie, he ain't the
cold Slaw. He the folk piece. This dude is the
cold slaw. But the coldslaugh live gone public. So now
she trying to turn cold slaw and massed potatoes a
damn entree. And it ain't finna work because I ain't
gonna let it go down like that, got homie, because
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we got to get up here and go to walk.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
We at work. We're finn to put it in work.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You let me.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Explain something to you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Dog.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
She ain't.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Gonna get away. This is your shot, homie. And see,
listen to me. We got to erase what the parents think.
You're still in the game. Compare yourself to him. This
is when it's time. It's time to get the mud out.
Now it's mud slanging time.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
And what is he to you? My friend?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You want to hear that? Now it's the hair of.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Points and do tag. They keep trying to tell me
you with it that I ought to not let you
just walk on me time. Yeah, yes, she do. Shelny.
You don't know what.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I know, Sheridan, You don't understand shechriff, We come back.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I'm gonna finish up with this letter. Come on, Bill,
take us out. She is Steve Harvey, Marty show man
stuff that I know. I know, I'm not going. Lord,
you ever did this here?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You ever told somebody you wasn't home so they wouldn't
come over for you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
They came over anyway, and you was getting.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
In the car.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I'm not the only room.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Like somebody at your church or something gave you a
dish to eat and when you saw him again, you
said you ate it and it was delicious, but you know,
getting damn where you threw.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It away because you didn't think the person was clean.
Show coming up right after the.
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All right, here we are part three of the Strawberry.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Lest disagree, they're appointed due to I'm tired of sneaking
around with her. Well, see, Shirley, this is the love
of his life, and it's time for her to understand
what they really have. See, she don't even know what's
the love of her life because they're so busy trying
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to keep it a secret. And then Mamma, then well
when you gonna get somebody. Now, she'd have showed up
this boyfriend for two years. Now, how you're gonna come
back and tell her it's always been your friend? That's
the problem she got. She'd have got herself in the
spy the web. Well, since we're in the spy the web,
it's gonna get all tangled up because now you got
to start slinging mud.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It's mud slinging time now, homie.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You got to start comparing yourself to him.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Who is he and what is he to you? You
understand what he.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Could get enough all these women out here, the one he.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Won't, No, no, the one he won't is the love
of his life.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Shirley.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, you don't always get what you can fight for
it though, compare yourself to her.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
He can't love you like I do.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
He can't treat you the way I can treat you.
Why he can't won't you the way I won't you
no moment, June. You don't bring no nineties world in
the meat un bringing, no damn jagged, no damn jagget as.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
He can't love you like I love you.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What that is?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
He can't protect you like I'll protect you. I have
loved you since the moment I saw you.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You have been the love of my life, since the
moment we touched one another. I can't live without you.
I don't breathe without you. I want you more than
I won't air. I love you more than I love myself.
There ain't a lot of women can walk away from
the sun, I'm telling you. But now what you're gonna
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have to do is you're gonna have to take your
love for her public. Oh, public affirmation is about time
to come. If she don't, then we go for the break.
I'll go public with my love for her. I'll go
online and say I'm sorry, and I just tell her
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in front of the world that it may end it,
but this is your shot. Do not let the love
of your life get away just because she's dating this
punk ass.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
See that ends?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I hope Part three of today's Strawberry Letter.
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I'm not visiting the sickest shuddy.
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Had here we go.
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Oh that on. You ain't coming to my office telling
me your problem, o'y.
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I'll go down there every Sunday.
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Shoot job coming up right after you