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The pants were sliced both with a knife and then later with razor.  The 
Here's how I want to continue it: razor was used second.

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Laura gently rubbed and stroked Christine's skin with her fingertips because 
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He couldn't take the clear photograph of the car on a highway using the camera because the 
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camera was so slow.