September 10, 2025 • 13 mins
The Strawberry Letter, heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. Subject: "Numbers Don't Lie"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, now it's time for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HAARVFM dot com.
All you have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter,
and we could be reading your letter live on the air,
just like we're going to read this one right here,
right now, and you never know, it could be yours.
(00:21):
Keep those letters coming.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes right, Shirley, could be yours. Ladies and Jentlemen's time
for the Strawberry Letter with my good friend, Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you, my good friend. Junior. Subject numbers don't lie,
Dear Stephen, Shirley, I'm thirty three years old and single.
My uncle is like a father to me, and he
helped my mother raise me. He is a sweetheart of
a man and he loves the Lord. He's active in
his church and he will help anyone that needs him.
(00:51):
He's worked all of his life and he's got a
little fortune saved up. He's fifty eight and he has
never been married, so he was anxious to settle down.
The lady he's been seeing is not marriage material, and
everyone in town knows it. The lady used to run
with my mother back when my mother was abusing alcohol
(01:12):
and running the streets. She's known this woman for over
thirty years, and she told me that this woman had
a fling with my father while she was pregnant with me.
I try to be cordial with the woman because my
uncle asked me to mind my manners around her. There's
a rumor that my mom's pastor used to mess with
this woman too. This is way too many bodies for
(01:34):
my uncle. My uncle asked my mom and I to
meet him at a jewelry store, and my mom instantly
knew that he was about to get an engagement ring.
He got a very nice ring, and I stayed silent.
The next day, I called him and said that the
lady has been with a lot of men in our town.
My mother was in the background telling my uncle that
(01:55):
he's being used and numbers don't live. He said he'd
take everything into account and talk with the woman before
he asked her to marry him. A week later, they
got married down at the courthouse and no one from
our family was invited. We tried calling him and he
blocked all of us. I was only trying to help him.
(02:19):
How could my father figure shut me out and pick her? Hmmm,
Well that's not a hard question, because haven't you heard
the term stay out of grown folks business? Well, you
know that's what you've done here. You've gotten in some
grown folks business that you had no business being in. Period.
(02:41):
He did it because he loves this woman or he
can have sex with her, and whatever the reason is,
none of your concern. Okay, he didn't pick her over you.
This is not a competition. He picked the woman he
wanted to spend his life with. You and your mom
overstepped your med lane. You being messy, don't you think
(03:02):
if everyone in town knows about this woman, so does
your uncle who's fifty eight and you know, been out there.
He knows what's going on, and that's who he's marrying.
He doesn't care, he doesn't care. That's who he's going
to marry. She is who he wants. Get used to
saying that and feeling that and knowing that because he's
(03:24):
done it already. Anyway, he's a grown man with a
few coins. He's worked hard for his money and now
he wants what he wants and he wants her. And
what's it to you if he marries her. He's not
asking for your approval anyway. What are you afraid he
might give away his so called fortune because I see
you mentioned that in a letter he's got some coins
(03:46):
and there won't be anything left for you. Well, there
is a chance of that, and he is married to
her and things will go to her now. But you'll
be fine. You can't miss what you never had. So
it's time now for you to constant trait on your
own life and leave your uncle alone and his new bride.
Leave them alone. He doesn't want to hear it. That's
(04:09):
why he blocked you. Okay, let this go, Steve.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, that is pretty simple for me. Thirty three year
that the number the title of the letter is numbers.
Don't lie now, this thirty three year old single lady,
which means she got time for this. Uh got an
uncle that's a father to us. You know, mother helped
helped her mother raise her. Here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
He's the sweetheart of a man, and he loves the Lord.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's active in the church and will help anybody that
needs him. Well, people that loves the Lord and active
in the church, always willing to help somebody sometimes, you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Know, they they just want that wild thing. You know
they won't.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You know we we we've been serving the Lord. Yes,
we active in the church.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know. Willis Saturday night and the church is closed, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And Dupop I'm gonna call him dupop. Dupop wants a
wild thing, so Dupop. And then you said he's worked
all his life, he's got a little fortune saved up,
saved up. He's never been married. So he was anxious
to settle down. He fifty eight. When did he get
(05:38):
anxious to settle down? He there sixty? Now he anxious
to settle down. You probably don't know a lot about
your uncle because your uncle ain't been single the whole
fifty eight years. Your uncle has done some things. Now
(05:59):
you call him a sweetheart of a man all you want.
And I probably think he is a nice guy, especially
to you and your mother. But do poping out there
doing some things, and he doing some things with a
little wild girl too, and little wild girl putting it
on it, and he wants to bury this girl. Y'all
got a problem with it. And when I come back,
(06:22):
I'll give you the rest of it. Ain't gonna be
much of nothing. You ain't gonna like what I'm about
to say, I'm get out to what Cherley said.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It really ain't your business.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We'll be back to find out that it ain't your
business right after this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's right at twenty three minutes after the hour. The
part two of Steve's response is coming up to today
Strawberry letter, Numbers don't lie. Right after this. You're listening
Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
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has built something hugely valuable. Equity is the portion of
your home you truly own that can be tapped to
fun what's next, And Rocket Mortgage is here to help
you turn your home's equity into cash. Fund your next
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(07:17):
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Speaker 1 (07:25):
Come on, Steve Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is numbers don't lie.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, there's thirty three year old single lady who's obviously
single because she got time for this. Her uncle's like
a father to help her mother raise her. He's the
sweetheart of a man. He loves the Lord. He's active
in the church, and he will help anyone that needs him.
Like I said before to break, he's been loving the
Lord a long time and been active in the church.
(07:51):
Do pop on some wild things because church ain't open
on Saturday night, And before he go to church, Papa
wonna do some Wow. He'd have worked all his life.
He got a little fortune saved up. He's fifty eight.
He's never been married, so he's anxious to settle down.
I don't know how you think anxious to settle down
starts at fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
But if don't, he's really late.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The lady he's been seeing is not marriage material, and
everybody in town knows that. I want you to bear that.
I didn't mind, because I'm give that information back to
you shortly. The lady used to run with my mother
back when my mother was abusing alcohol and running the streets.
She's known this woman for thirty years, and she told
me that this woman had a fleeing with my father
(08:36):
while she was pregnant with me. Okay, and didn't you
say that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Did not you say that was thirty years ago? She did?
Wasn't she running with your mama? This your mama, girl?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Now all of a sudden, your mama good enough to
be mama, but the the other lady ain't good enough
to be white?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Make up your mind now, you do.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Know people change, then your mother change. Oh, but this
lady can't change. She used to run with your mother
back when your mama was abusing alcohol and running the streets.
She's known this woman for thirty years. Told me that
this woman had a fleeing with my father while she
(09:27):
was pregnant with me. That's what your mama told you. Okay, So,
so wasn't y'all out there running the streets and abusing alcohol?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I try to be callingial with the woman because my
uncle asked me to mind my manners around her. There's
a rumor that my mom's pastor used to mess with
this woman too. That's way too many bodies for my uncle.
Wait a minute, now, a rumor is that your mother's
(10:03):
pastor used to mess with this woman too. Excuse me,
you don't see nothing wrong with the pastor though, So
you gonna skip over your mama's pastor and go right
back to her being wrong. This is way too many
bodies from my uncle. My uncle asked my mom and
(10:26):
I to meetium at a jewelry store. My mom instantly
knew he was gonna get an engagement ring. He got
a very nice ring, and I stayed silent. Next day
I called him and said that the lady has been
with a lot of men in our town. You know
nothing about it. You're operating off a rumor and something
your drunk mama said happened thirty some years ago. No,
(10:47):
while she was drunk and pregnant with you, her drunk
friend slept with her husband. What My mother was in
the background telling my uncle that he's being used and
numbers don't lie. He said he'd take every thing into
account and talk with the woman before they asked to marry.
A week later, they got married at the courthouse. See
when he went to talk to her, she put some
(11:08):
more of that happy thing on him. See she puts
some more of that thing on him. So right after
they got talking and he said, I'm man hunting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I show appreciate you. Clear up these numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
After gil, he listened to me this how talke Abigail.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Abgail listened to talking to Jill Linda and Jihn. Linda
told me John Linda, John Linda said that and and
and and my niece of Pathia, Jilna was talking to
me about.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You, uh.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And they said that you had messed with the past
and clear offers, and that you had slept with uh
uh Abigail's uh husband while they were married.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I didn't do that, he.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Said, Well, I gotta ask you a couple more questions.
What was you doing with these men back then?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Then when they got through he met me later they
got married down at the coat house, and no one
from my family was invited because y'all disapproved of the woman.
We tried calling him, he blocked all of us. I
was only trying to help him. How could my father
figure shut me out and pick her?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
What? How he picked her? That choice was so easy?
Do you know what she doing to you? What's her name?
What's her name?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
All Linda is putting from the Abigail is her mom?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, all them to put it on, put the thing
on him. I'm talking about he can't even see good
no more. And he just happened because.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What was his name, Theopol, the polease.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, well they named him after the one eyed Cyclops
because that's what they used to call him when he was.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
The Clopsous. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Please leave your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram
and Facebook at Steve Harvey f M, and check us
out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Well, now it's time for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HAARVFM dot com.
All you have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter,
and we could be reading your letter live on the air,
just like we're going to read this one right here,
right now, and you never know, it could be yours.
(00:21):
Keep those letters coming.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes right, Shirley, could be yours. Ladies and Jentlemen's time
for the Strawberry Letter with my good friend, Shirley Strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you, my good friend. Junior. Subject numbers don't lie,
Dear Stephen, Shirley, I'm thirty three years old and single.
My uncle is like a father to me, and he
helped my mother raise me. He is a sweetheart of
a man and he loves the Lord. He's active in
his church and he will help anyone that needs him.
(00:51):
He's worked all of his life and he's got a
little fortune saved up. He's fifty eight and he has
never been married, so he was anxious to settle down.
The lady he's been seeing is not marriage material, and
everyone in town knows it. The lady used to run
with my mother back when my mother was abusing alcohol
(01:12):
and running the streets. She's known this woman for over
thirty years, and she told me that this woman had
a fling with my father while she was pregnant with me.
I try to be cordial with the woman because my
uncle asked me to mind my manners around her. There's
a rumor that my mom's pastor used to mess with
this woman too. This is way too many bodies for
(01:34):
my uncle. My uncle asked my mom and I to
meet him at a jewelry store, and my mom instantly
knew that he was about to get an engagement ring.
He got a very nice ring, and I stayed silent.
The next day, I called him and said that the
lady has been with a lot of men in our town.
My mother was in the background telling my uncle that
(01:55):
he's being used and numbers don't live. He said he'd
take everything into account and talk with the woman before
he asked her to marry him. A week later, they
got married down at the courthouse and no one from
our family was invited. We tried calling him and he
blocked all of us. I was only trying to help him.
(02:19):
How could my father figure shut me out and pick her? Hmmm,
Well that's not a hard question, because haven't you heard
the term stay out of grown folks business? Well, you
know that's what you've done here. You've gotten in some
grown folks business that you had no business being in. Period.
(02:41):
He did it because he loves this woman or he
can have sex with her, and whatever the reason is,
none of your concern. Okay, he didn't pick her over you.
This is not a competition. He picked the woman he
wanted to spend his life with. You and your mom
overstepped your med lane. You being messy, don't you think
(03:02):
if everyone in town knows about this woman, so does
your uncle who's fifty eight and you know, been out there.
He knows what's going on, and that's who he's marrying.
He doesn't care, he doesn't care. That's who he's going
to marry. She is who he wants. Get used to
saying that and feeling that and knowing that because he's
(03:24):
done it already. Anyway, he's a grown man with a
few coins. He's worked hard for his money and now
he wants what he wants and he wants her. And
what's it to you if he marries her. He's not
asking for your approval anyway. What are you afraid he
might give away his so called fortune because I see
you mentioned that in a letter he's got some coins
(03:46):
and there won't be anything left for you. Well, there
is a chance of that, and he is married to
her and things will go to her now. But you'll
be fine. You can't miss what you never had. So
it's time now for you to constant trait on your
own life and leave your uncle alone and his new bride.
Leave them alone. He doesn't want to hear it. That's
(04:09):
why he blocked you. Okay, let this go, Steve.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, that is pretty simple for me. Thirty three year
that the number the title of the letter is numbers.
Don't lie now, this thirty three year old single lady,
which means she got time for this. Uh got an
uncle that's a father to us. You know, mother helped
helped her mother raise her. Here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
He's the sweetheart of a man, and he loves the Lord.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's active in the church and will help anybody that
needs him. Well, people that loves the Lord and active
in the church, always willing to help somebody sometimes, you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Know, they they just want that wild thing. You know
they won't.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You know we we we've been serving the Lord. Yes,
we active in the church.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know. Willis Saturday night and the church is closed, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And Dupop I'm gonna call him dupop. Dupop wants a
wild thing, so Dupop. And then you said he's worked
all his life, he's got a little fortune saved up,
saved up. He's never been married. So he was anxious
to settle down. He fifty eight. When did he get
(05:38):
anxious to settle down? He there sixty? Now he anxious
to settle down. You probably don't know a lot about
your uncle because your uncle ain't been single the whole
fifty eight years. Your uncle has done some things. Now
(05:59):
you call him a sweetheart of a man all you want.
And I probably think he is a nice guy, especially
to you and your mother. But do poping out there
doing some things, and he doing some things with a
little wild girl too, and little wild girl putting it
on it, and he wants to bury this girl. Y'all
got a problem with it. And when I come back,
(06:22):
I'll give you the rest of it. Ain't gonna be
much of nothing. You ain't gonna like what I'm about
to say, I'm get out to what Cherley said.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It really ain't your business.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We'll be back to find out that it ain't your
business right after this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's right at twenty three minutes after the hour. The
part two of Steve's response is coming up to today
Strawberry letter, Numbers don't lie. Right after this. You're listening
Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
If you're a homeowner, you know it took years of saving,
planning and home hard work to get in the doors
then make that house of homes. Now, all that effort
has built something hugely valuable. Equity is the portion of
your home you truly own that can be tapped to
fun what's next, And Rocket Mortgage is here to help
you turn your home's equity into cash. Fund your next
dream with Rocket Mortgage. Visit rocket mortgage dot com today
(07:17):
to find out more. Rocket Mortgage LLC licensed in fifty states,
n MLS Consumer Access dot Org number thirty thirty.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Come on, Steve Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is numbers don't lie.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, there's thirty three year old single lady who's obviously
single because she got time for this. Her uncle's like
a father to help her mother raise her. He's the
sweetheart of a man. He loves the Lord. He's active
in the church, and he will help anyone that needs him.
Like I said before to break, he's been loving the
Lord a long time and been active in the church.
(07:51):
Do pop on some wild things because church ain't open
on Saturday night, And before he go to church, Papa
wonna do some Wow. He'd have worked all his life.
He got a little fortune saved up. He's fifty eight.
He's never been married, so he's anxious to settle down.
I don't know how you think anxious to settle down
starts at fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
But if don't, he's really late.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The lady he's been seeing is not marriage material, and
everybody in town knows that. I want you to bear that.
I didn't mind, because I'm give that information back to
you shortly. The lady used to run with my mother
back when my mother was abusing alcohol and running the streets.
She's known this woman for thirty years, and she told
me that this woman had a fleeing with my father
(08:36):
while she was pregnant with me. Okay, and didn't you
say that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Did not you say that was thirty years ago? She did?
Wasn't she running with your mama? This your mama, girl?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Now all of a sudden, your mama good enough to
be mama, but the the other lady ain't good enough
to be white?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Make up your mind now, you do.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Know people change, then your mother change. Oh, but this
lady can't change. She used to run with your mother
back when your mama was abusing alcohol and running the streets.
She's known this woman for thirty years. Told me that
this woman had a fleeing with my father while she
(09:27):
was pregnant with me. That's what your mama told you. Okay, So,
so wasn't y'all out there running the streets and abusing alcohol?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I try to be callingial with the woman because my
uncle asked me to mind my manners around her. There's
a rumor that my mom's pastor used to mess with
this woman too. That's way too many bodies for my uncle.
Wait a minute, now, a rumor is that your mother's
(10:03):
pastor used to mess with this woman too. Excuse me,
you don't see nothing wrong with the pastor though, So
you gonna skip over your mama's pastor and go right
back to her being wrong. This is way too many
bodies from my uncle. My uncle asked my mom and
(10:26):
I to meetium at a jewelry store. My mom instantly
knew he was gonna get an engagement ring. He got
a very nice ring, and I stayed silent. Next day
I called him and said that the lady has been
with a lot of men in our town. You know
nothing about it. You're operating off a rumor and something
your drunk mama said happened thirty some years ago. No,
(10:47):
while she was drunk and pregnant with you, her drunk
friend slept with her husband. What My mother was in
the background telling my uncle that he's being used and
numbers don't lie. He said he'd take every thing into
account and talk with the woman before they asked to marry.
A week later, they got married at the courthouse. See
when he went to talk to her, she put some
(11:08):
more of that happy thing on him. See she puts
some more of that thing on him. So right after
they got talking and he said, I'm man hunting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I show appreciate you. Clear up these numbers.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
After gil, he listened to me this how talke Abigail.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Abgail listened to talking to Jill Linda and Jihn. Linda
told me John Linda, John Linda said that and and
and and my niece of Pathia, Jilna was talking to
me about.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You, uh.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And they said that you had messed with the past
and clear offers, and that you had slept with uh
uh Abigail's uh husband while they were married.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I didn't do that, he.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Said, Well, I gotta ask you a couple more questions.
What was you doing with these men back then?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Then when they got through he met me later they
got married down at the coat house, and no one
from my family was invited because y'all disapproved of the woman.
We tried calling him, he blocked all of us. I
was only trying to help him. How could my father
figure shut me out and pick her?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
What? How he picked her? That choice was so easy?
Do you know what she doing to you? What's her name?
What's her name?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
All Linda is putting from the Abigail is her mom?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, all them to put it on, put the thing
on him. I'm talking about he can't even see good
no more. And he just happened because.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What was his name, Theopol, the polease.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, well they named him after the one eyed Cyclops
because that's what they used to call him when he was.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
The Clopsous. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Please leave your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram
and Facebook at Steve Harvey f M, and check us
out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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