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After dinner, I used a sponge to clean the kitchen counter because the 
Here's how I want to continue it: counter was dirty.

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Jason worried that Christopher had an ear infection after he complained of ear pain, so 
Here's how I want to continue it: Jason drove him to the doctor.

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The feeling that John has with Philip is worse than his emotion towards Dennis, because the 
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feeling are intense.