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stuff, when you're very quick to act odd and offish when you're unhappy." >> one of many he read from so far this morning. afterward, insisting that they made up. cnn legal analyst kelly phelps live outside the courthouse for us in pretoria this morning. kelly, what do you make of these messages? i mean, on the one hand, you know, he's reading reeva steenkamp's words, saying she was afraid of him, she was scared of him. on the other hand, there are a lot of other messages that are quite loving and show that they had, you know, gotten over these tiffs. >> reporter: absolutely, and i think that's what the state is clearly trying to achieve through this testimony this morning. they're saying that, yes, those fights happened, i acknowledge that, i take responsibility for that, but one needs to put them in the context of the normal ups and downs of any relationship. and if we put on the record all of the positive relationships, they so far outweigh the negative ones, which had been resolved and moved on from, that they can barely be considered

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