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Mama’s BoysE
very day on the Steve Harvey Morning Show, my cohost
Shirley and I have a really popular segment called
“Strawberry Letter 23,” during which we invite our
listeners to let us help them solve their problems. We get all
kinds of e-mails and letters from people desperate for advice on
how to handle wild kids, overly demanding bosses, cheating
boyfriends, out-of-control baby’s mommas, money-grubbing
family members, horrible friendships—you name it, we hear
about it. Some of the questions are extremely sad, some of them
are so surprising they make you want to clutch your chest, and
some of them just make you shake your head and wonder how
the person asking for advice made it through. The people who
write those letters aren’t doing it in a vacuum; for every prob-
lem addressed in “Strawberry Letter 23,” there are thousands