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The Waffle Episode
Jennifer, age eleven, wakes up,
makes her bed, looks around her room to make sure
everything is in its place, and heads into the kitchen to
make herself breakfast. She peers into the freezer, re-
moves the container of frozen waffles, and counts six
waffles. Thinking to herself, “I’ll have three waffles this
morning and three tomorrow morning,” Jennifer toasts
her three waffles and sits down to eat.
Moments later her mother and five-year-old brother,
Adam, enter the kitchen, and the mother asks Adam
what he’d like to eat for breakfast. Adam responds, “Waf-
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