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How did she scoop stew into her mouth without a spoon? How did the others do it without spoon or fingers?

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I must’ve missed the spot where I said that they weren’t using their fingers, can you quote that bit?

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You didn’t say that they weren’t. You said that she hadn’t been careful enough and had to link her fingers.

“She was opening her mouth to ask for a spoon when she saw that none of the others were using them, so she carefully scooped some stew into her mouth. Not quite carefully enough, it turned out, and she had to lick her fingers off, which made the girl sitting closest to her giggle.”

The implication is that she could somehow have been careful enough to avoid it. But if she was using her fingers, there is no way she could have been.

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Oh I see I’ll have to rewrite that. What I meant was that she tried to do it carefully and only get the spots to the edge of the bowl that might be cool but instead she managed to get a hotspot and had to quickly lick your fingers because they were burning.

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