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there was too much soup in the stew and lacked the essential ingredients, the 
Here's how I want to continue it: ingredients was too little.

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He took a vitamin that was a lot more beneficial than the pill, because the 
Here's how I want to continue it: pill was all chemicals.

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Victoria was very good at sculpting but Angela was very bad at it. 
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Victoria got a high grade in art class.