Players: A mother and her teenage daughter
Teen: I need chocolate!
Mom: Why?
Teen: There's nothing else to eat for a snack.
Mom: Eat some jam toast.
Teen: What kind of jam is there?
Mom: Well, you can open the fridge and use your eyes.
Teen: I don't know how to do those things. Can I eat your chocolate?
Mom: You had a whole basket full of chocolate, and you ate it already.
Teen: But I had cramps. You didn't have cramps.
Mom: Child, I'm going to have a baby.
Teen: You're not having the baby now.
...and scene.
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Someone is going to go without chocolate for a long time at this rate.
I get chocolate for my cramps now, but I'm a married woman with six children. I feel rather entitled to it. I did *not* when I was a teen-my mother would not so much as let me grab a handful of chocolate chips. Those were for baking!
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