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We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're going to be reading this one right here, right now, today. Yeah. Buckle up. Hold on tight. We got it for you. Here it is the strawberry letter. Subject, my best friend is just trying to help out. Dear Stephen Shirley, I have been married to my husband for eight years, and we have a five-year-old

and a two-year-old daughter.

My husband has five other kids, not including the two we have together.

Yes, I know this is a lot of kids.

However, I want to try for another baby next year.

I am 32, and he is 40 40 and he says he is too old to

have more kids. I don't have a son and would like to try for a son. I always told him I wanted to

have three children. We don't have sex because he says he doesn't want to get me pregnant.

And if we do have sex, he buys me the Plan B pill to avoid any possible pregnancies.

I even asked if we can adopt and he still said, no.

I am starting to resent my husband, and this is causing a strain on our relationship

because I want another baby. We are financially stable

enough to have another baby. I confide it and my best friend who happens to be a manned

and he offered me his sperm. As you know, he would donate the sperm and sex would not be

involved.

When I told my husband about my best friend's offer, he flipped out and was highly upset.

He said that would be committing a sin, breaking the vows of marriage, and he would not accept the baby as his child.

He also said he would divorce me if I even brought it up again.

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