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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Friday, June 25th, 2025. Subject: "The Candy Lady"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's right, it could be. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you, nephew. The Candy Lady is the subject. Dear
Stephen Shirley. I'm a fifty nine year old mother of
two grown sons, and I pride myself on how well
I raised them by myself. They both are educated and
have great jobs. My oldest son is married and he
is a baby on the way with his wife. My
youngest son is twenty nine is he and he is

(00:49):
trying to send me to an early grade. When I
was raising my boys, I had a village of strong
women to help me. One of my nearest and dearest
friends helped me the most. My sons loved to call
her the Candy Lady because she always had some kind
of candy in her purse. She never had children and
never got married, but they never saw her go through

(01:10):
all of the men and the drama in her life.
Up until twenty twenty, she was in an eleven year
relationship with this married man. After they broke up, she
was very depressed, and I did all I could to
snap her out of it. I even sent my twenty
nine year old son over to change her locks to
prevent the married man from creeping back into her life.

(01:33):
She called me a few days after that and said
she was getting her life back on track and my
son was going to teach her how to play tennis.
I thought that a hobby would be helpful. Little did
I know she and my son have been seeing each
other for over a year. He's been living with her
for a while, and he won't tell me how or

(01:53):
why it all happened. He came to me last week
and said he wanted to tell me something, but before
he told me, he said there is nothing I can
do about it. He told me that I shouldn't be
upset with my friend because age doesn't matter, and he
called her his soulmate. The candy lady that I know
has had over a hundred soulmates over the years. I

(02:16):
don't want my son with this old hefa. Is there
anything I can do to break up my son and
the candy lady?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
First of all, I mean this is one of those,
you know, ultimate betrayal type situations, because she knows better
that she's your age. You say, you're fifty nine and
she's you know, doing your twenty nine year old son. Yeah, this,
she went behind your back. Basically, you know, you guys
are supposed to be friends. She knows your son with

(02:46):
off limits. And here's what you know, you already know.
There is nothing you can do about this. I mean,
as a mother, I know you don't want this for
your son. You do not like them together. This woman
is your friend, so you know all her business, and
you don't think she's good enough for your son. You
know what she's been through, all the men, the married

(03:06):
men for eleven years that she was with. All you're
doing is looking out for your son. At this point,
you think she's way too old, as you mentioned in
the letter, for your twenty nine year old son, and
that she has too much baggage. There's nothing wrong with
how you feel. But here's the other thing. They are
both grown. They are both consenting adults. She's I guess,

(03:27):
around fifty nine, he's twenty nine. He never even told
you how this happened or came about, but you know
he was over there and she probably seduced him. And
they want each other right now, that's what they do.
They're grown, like I said, consenting, free to do whatever
they want, and what they want is each other. They

(03:47):
already live together, so basically your hands are tied. He's
been with her for a whole year. Sometimes you just
gotta pray, let it go, give it to God, this
relationship and all that comes with it, good, good or bad.
It's called life experience for your son. You're trying to
stop that, but you know it's not a lot you
can do at this point. I wish you the best,

(04:09):
but I don't see anything you can do at this point.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Steve Well, candid Lady, Candid Lady Friend, little Candy Boy,
have or take on this letter that is going to
shock or Paul and really just be upsetting to So

(04:39):
before I get into this letter, I want to say
that I personally stand by everything I'm about to say.
I have no reason to apologize. I'm not asking you
to agree with me. As a matter of fact, I
d see.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Be clear about that.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, I don't care. I d C.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I'm gonna create my own emojis online. Yeah, w y D.
I got a new one.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I d C because I really be wanting to text
that most of the time when I'm texting. So that's
the new one. I d C stands for I don't care.
I wish I'm gonna start texting it save me a.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Lot of texts.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
All right, let me tell you that this fifty nine
year old mother, these two grown sons, now here's a
lot of what I'm proud of single mothers that raise
their children. I really am, and I think you do
a great job. But I keep telling y'all. You can
raise these boys to be good citizens. You can raise
them to be gentlemen. You can really raise them to
be God fearing. You can raise them to obey the law.

(05:46):
You can raise them a lot of ways. You can't
make them men. I don't care what you do. You
can't make them men. The how they decide to be
as men. It's gonna have a lot to do with
another man. Now, you can instill a lot of the
great qualities of a man in him, but when it's
time to be a man, he has to stand alone.

(06:06):
Your oldest son is married, he got a baby on
his way. Your youngest son twenty nine. He's trying to
send you to early grade. See you mad because one
of your nears and dearest friends helped me the most,
and my sons love to call her the candy Lady.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
She been the candy Lady for a long time.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You got the title of this letter, right, And when
I come back, I'm gonna tell you how much candy
the Lady has been passing out and for how long
and who all had.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
To catch all?

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Hang on, Steve, Part two of your responses coming up
at twenty three minutes after the hour today Strawberry letter,
subject the Candy Lady. We'll get back into it right
after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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(07:21):
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Speaker 1 (07:32):
All right, come on, Steve. Let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject the candy Lady.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, this fifty nine year old woman raised her two sons,
did a great job, instill a lot of values that
one of her sons is married, got a baby on
the way, the oldest son, very proud of him. And
then she's having some trouble with the youngest one. He
is twenty nine. He trying to send her to an

(07:58):
early grave. He say, well, let's get into this. Then
she said, when I was raising my boys, I had
a village of strong women to help me that needed
to be a man in there. But no problem. Women
do a great job being mothers and single mothers, and

(08:19):
they've done great job raising some boys and some young
men that turned out just fine. But the job of
manhood has to fall squarely on the shoulders of another man.
I can't teach my daughters how to be women. I
don't care how much I talk to him. It's just
too much about it.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't know. And so it is with manhood. But
you did a good job. Now.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
One of your nearest and dear's friends helped you the most.
And my son loved to call her the candy Lady
because she always had some kind of candy in her purse.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
We'll get into that in a minute.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
She never had children, never got married, but they never
saw her go through all the men and the drum
I'm in her life up until twenty twenty. Now, this woman,
candid Lady, was in eleven year relationship with this married man.
After they broke up, she was depressed, and I did
all I could to snaper out of it.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now here's what you did. You sit the twenty nine
year old.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Boy yours over there to change her locks to prevent
the married man from creeping back into her life. She
called me a few days later after that and said
she was getting her life back on track and her
son was gonna teach.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
You how to play tennis.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I thought that a hobby would be helpful, Little did
I know she and my son have been seeing each
other for over a year. He been living with us
for a while, and he won't even tell me how
a while I don't have that.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Hey say if they do, Earny grade.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Before I finished crying, let me tell you what happened.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
He went over the candy lady house.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Candy Lady turned into the cookie lady. See you can't.
You can't keep passing our candy to growd me. See
it ain't candy for me no more. It's cake pie cookies.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I like cookies because that he is here to get to.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Now here's your problem. He won't tell me how why
it all happened. So then he came to me last week.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I'm looking at it.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
He been living with her for a while, and he
won't tell me why.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
It all happened. No, Sureley, you can't stop me.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I'm been knowing this help for my whole life, and
you're trying to help her. I see my son over there,
to help her get herself together and change these locks
on this.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Bounce and don't come back up in there.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
And then she gonna set up here and just stop
passing our cand All of a sudden, she just give
it our cooking over there, and he's stupid. He'd have
got hold of something this hole, that cooking and now
the cooking, and I don't know what he's doing. He
don't even know what he doing over there. He came
to me last week. He told me he wanted to
tell me, So I'm trying to tell you the story.

(11:26):
Now he's grolling to tell me. But before he told me,
he told me, wasn't nothingowed to do about it?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I am you gonna come and tell me something? And
then you gonna tell me, ain't nothing like doing about?
Why you telling me?

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I want to do something about it? I want to
help myself. Can hear about this old hever?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
And she'd put it on him? She put it on me,
that dude, she put it.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
All him is good, and all his good is experienced.
I know what she did to him. But then he
gonna tell me. I should be up saying, you see
me crying.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
You'll see me crying. You don't tell me to be.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I'm saying, you'll tell me how to be. Will come
in here and tell me you screwing this whole heaven?
Then I ain't supposed to be on say, because he
he gonna tell me I shouldn't be all saying cause
my free coach.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Age don't matter. This all helpful? And is you talking
about age don't matter? She thirty years older than you.
I know, girl, what else? She don't want no kids?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
She can't ah no kids, she can't have no she
can have some medicare what she can have? And then
and then he gonna call her his soul mate. I
wanted just say, you're stupid, basted this candy lady that
I know that had one hundred soul mates over the year.
She just screwed all these mans and now you just

(12:57):
one of them.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Now you one hundred and one.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
You lack a punt, but now you're wanted a water
on it in one down mission. I I don't want
myself with this whole album.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It is anything I can do to break up out
Saturday care ladies.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yes there is something you can do, and I want
to tell you, and I beg to different that there's
nothing you can do here. It is and I'm gonna
let the letter close out. You gonna have to go
over there and jump on them. Thank you all for listening.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's what free.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
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the Strawberry Letter podcast.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Y'all know how to fight and still be friends. We're sixty.
We used to do that all the time.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
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