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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
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(00:21):
be yours.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you here. It is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thank you, nephew. Subject there's more of him to love now.
Dear Stephen Shirley, I dated a guy for two years
back in twenty fifteen. I got a job transfer to
another state and he didn't want to do a long
distance relationship, so we parted ways. I was heartbroken and
I considered moving back home and taking an emotion just

(00:50):
to be with him. He was six ' three with
creamy brown skin and wavy hair. He was a basketball coach.
He was a basketball coach at a high school back
in AnyWho. I got married in twenty eighteen and the
marriage only lasted eighteen months. I told my sister that
coach had been on my mind, and she encouraged me

(01:11):
to reach out to him. It took me four years
to get around to it. I called the school where
he used to be a coach he retired, but they
gave me his email address. I emailed him and he
responded after a few days. He said he was happy
to hear from me, and he said that we should
have gotten married years ago. My heart was so happy,

(01:33):
and I got nervous when he said he was coming
to see me. Two weeks later, he flew in and
got a hotel room and invited me to dinner. He
sent me an uber and there were flowers on the
back seat, and I felt like a queen. When I
got to the restaurant, I looked around, but the only
thing I saw was the back of a bald headed

(01:53):
black man with big shoulders. I was shocked when that
man turned around and I saw it was co coach.
He's a big guy, and with him being so tall,
he looked like a giant. We've been dating six months
and our conversation is great and he's still got a
great sense of humor, but intimacy is not good. Recently,

(02:16):
after sex, he asked me to marry him and he
wants to elope. That's fine, but I really need him
to slim down first. How do I ask him to
lose twenty pounds? Do you think it will hurt his feelings? Well, yes,
it's gonna hurt him. It's gonna sting him a bit.
But trust me, he already knows, he really does. He's

(02:38):
retired now and I'm sure he's not as active as
he once was. And he was losing his hair, so
he cut it all off. These things happen sometimes as
we age. It is okay, that's life. But if you
love this man and you want to marry him, you
got to be his friend first, and you gotta tell him.
You gotta be honest with him, but you gotta tell

(02:59):
him nicely that you would like for you guys. You
would like for you guys to lose weight, especially you
know him, lose weight, get healthy, get in shape for
the wedding, and you would like to try it and
keep it up and incorporate it into the marriage. You
guys mess it up the first time. You were heartbroken.
He clearly missed you. So this is your second chance

(03:21):
for the two of you to try it again and
get it right this time. Steve, Yeah, well, no fat shaming,
Oh well, you must excuse me?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Whoa you can do? It? Is we finn to do
this letter? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
You won't do another letter? You mean it ain't no
fat shaming the whole damn letter about his ass being fat.
That's what this whole fat and bowing. Oh all right,
all right, let me see if I could do this
without fat shaming.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, let's look at the numbers. Here.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
The gout two years back in two thousand and fifteen,
that's twenty fifteen, two years twenty seventeen, something like that.
Got a job transferred, he didn't want.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
To transfer, so you broke up.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You were heartbroken, and you thought about taking the demotion.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now you loved the guy. He was six y.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Three, creamy brown skin, waving hair. Let's keep all this
in mind. Now six 'y three, creamy, brown skinned, waving
hell the basketball coach. Any who say, I hate when
people tell us to her and they go AnyWho like, they.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Try to make light of it.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I got married in twenty eighteen, and the marriage only
lasted eighteen months. Let's do some math. Let's say she
talking about twenty fifteen. It ended she got married three
years later, twenty eighteen, and only lasted eighteen months. That's
a year and a half twenty nineteen. Damn near twenty twenty.

(05:05):
All right, cool?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I told my sister coach been on my mind. She
encouraged me to reach out to him.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
We add four years onto that, and here we are currently,
from twenty fifteen to current. Reached out to the school
he used to coach he retired. They gave me his email.
I emailed him. He responding a few days later, said
he was happy to hear from me and that we
should have gotten married years ago. Lord have mercy. I

(05:35):
was so happy this woman's sake. I got nervous. He
was coming to see me. Two weeks later, he flew
into town, got a hotel room, invited me to dinner.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Here would have let her get good. He sent me
an Uber and that wild flowers on the back seat,
like a queen. What that's queen? I didn't I didn't
know you could get away with that.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I send you a uber and put some flowers on
the back seat, and you feel like a queen? What
kind of relationship with you? In uber and some flowers?
You get to be a girl? You gonna out? I
like dating people like that. Ain't got a very low expectation.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I got to the restaurant, I looked around.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Only thing I saw was real quick, Steve, the back
of a ball headed black man with big shoulders.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
All right, hang on, keep it right there. We'll have
part two of your response coming up. See the twenty
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is there's more of him to love now?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
All right, very quickly, because we got to get to
the crux of what this letter is about. A woman
dated a man back in twenty fifteen had been going.
She loved him. It was great. She got a job transfer.
She had some transfer. He said he couldn't transfer. He
was a high school basketball coach. He just couldn't leave
his team, his boys. She wanted to go on with
her life, so she left. They broke up, they parted ways,

(07:51):
she got married. The marriage only lasted a year and
a half. She told her sister, I'd always be thinking
about my coach. He was six ' three, creamy, brown skin,
curly hal little sister told her reach out to him.
Took her four years to do it. Finally she reached

(08:12):
out to him and emailed him. He held me and
mailed her right back a couple days later and said
we should have gotten married years ago.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh my god. I was so happy. And then he said,
I'm flying into town to see you. Oh. He came
into town, got a hotel room. She was excited. Six three,
creamy skin, curly half. She sent him my uber.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
He sent her an uber and put flowers on the
back seat.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
She felt like a queen.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
She got to the restaurant, here we go, and all
she saw and looking around, but the only thing she
saw was the back of a ball headed black man
with big shoulders.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Now, wait a minute. The dude I remember had currently
half but he was six y three. All I saw
was the ball head black man with big shoulders.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
I was shocked when he turned around and saw that
it was coach.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Damn. Now here we go.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
He was a big guy and with him being so tall,
he looked like a giant. Well, we've been dating for
six months. See how that turned real fast? Guess guess
you didn't want to put in here. Your ass had
picked up a little bit of way too, because obviously
the weight didn't stop you. So not everybody picked up

(09:41):
a little bit because wasn't no need of you dog,
and him knowing your ass ain't what you was so
right after he found out he was a big guy
when he looked like a giant, we been dating for
six months and our conversation is great and he still
got a great sense of humor.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh oh, but intimacy is not good.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Here we go, boy, don't bring it like he used
to bring it.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Then gain too much damn weight.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Now here the problem with this letter right here, all
the wheeze and and stuff, because see I'm gonna tell
you here's the problem with the letter. Recently after sex.
He asked me to marry him, and he wants to elope.
Elope means to run away.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Fat people can't.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Run get married.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, that you are the last time you seen person
that break out running?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Elope.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Y'all gonna, y'all gonna slope off somewhere. But you're not
gonna Elope, And you want to know why? She say,
that's fine, but I really need him to slim down first.
How do I ask him to lose twenty pounds? Here's
the problem with the whole letter. You need to learn
your weights. This is more than twenty. This ain't twenty pounds.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
How do you know that? Though?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Don't turn you into a giant, she said, With him
being so tall, he looked like a giant.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
That ain't twenty pounds.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Lady, know your weights, big boy, those wove big boy
that picked on forty five fifty he lose twenty You
might not even be able to tell now his bald head.
I can't help you right there. The curly hair gone

(11:30):
probably ain't coming back. But that giant, you Dayton, that's
having us. The intimacy is not good because he heavy
and it's how he tied. Now he can't hold itself up.
You know, you gotta be able to brace yourself. Men,
if you're gonna be in the love making position, you
got to be able to lock your elbows. If you

(11:52):
can't lock your elbows longer than twenty seconds, you gonna
be raggedy in there, because you got to be able
to lock them elbows way longer than twenty six second,
because that's one of the most that's a power position
you're in now. When you can lock your elbows, that's
a power position. Then if you can't bring powerber for
fifteen seconds, fifteen seconds normally, don't get the job done.
I just want to throw that out there. Fifteen seconds

(12:13):
ain't gonna really produce the reaction. You won't be cause
you can't hold yourself up because you asked and got big.
This ain't twenty pounds any ball hitting not sweat, just
dripping right on you direct because ain't no had to
catch it. So now he just dripping on you, and
the sex ain't good. As soon as he got through
having sex. He want to get married, and he want to.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Elope, why y'all gotta run? How old are y'all? Why
y'all gotta run away? Just have a wed? And Elope?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
What is y'all running from She called the man, the
big ball head John come talking about can I get
him a little twenty pounds? First of all, you need
to learn your weights. Twenty pounds don't make you no giant.
Now I know, ain't nobody been on this show close
to sixty three button meat but.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Me, oh oh.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
And I'm just telling you, twenty pounds ain't gonna make
me no ji hey, because I lost thirty four pounds
and I wasn't a giant. Big boy needn lose some
more weight.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
With his wheed and ass.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
And you have to let him know about the twenty
That's how you know you need to get in shape,
because some friend of yours has to.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Tell you.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
At m on Instagram, and Shape had told me I
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(13:43):
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