Everyone in our country has a voice. It's something that says not just where you come from,

but who you are. Welcome to MPR's Black Stories Black Truths, a collection of podcasts

and a celebration of the host and journalism who've always spoken truth to power.

Our voices are as varied, nuanced, and dynamic as the Black experience,

and stories should never be about us without us. Find MPR Black Stories Black Truths

on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive

too, from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely death

of the Segway boss. History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

I'm Tim Halford, host of cautionary tales, the podcast that minds the greatest fiascoes of the past

for their most valuable lessons. Listen to cautionary tales on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

It is time now for today's strawberry letter and if you need advice on relationships,

works, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your strawberry letter to stefarveyfm.com.

Click the strawberry letter button and write us and it could be your letter we're reading today.

You never know, we write us because we always want to hear from you and help you.

You never know. So buckle up, hold on tight. We got it for you.

Strawberry letter here it is. Thank you nephew. Subject, she is going to make me pop her.

Dear Steven Shirley, I'm 47 and I've been dating a man that is married to a woman with a very

nasty personality and she is ugly inside and out. Do I need to read that again for anyone?

I went to college with her and she had a few fights with women over her boyfriend back then.

She has made my current boyfriend miserable for 12 years and they are finally getting a divorce

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