Roberta: Alex?
Alex: Yes, Roberta?
Roberta: Alex?
Alex: What?
Roberta: Do you like gum?
Alex: Yes, I like gum.
Roberta: Do you think it’s yummy?
Alex: Yes.
Roberta: Do you live here?
Alex: No.
Roberta: Is this your house?
Alex: No, I live in Boston.
Roberta: Do you live in Boston?
Alex: Yes.
Roberta: Who’s house is this?
Alex: My mom’s.
Roberta: Is this your mom’s house?
Alex: Yes.
Roberta: Did you come here for dinner?
Alex: Yes, just as you and your parents did.
Roberta: Alex?
Alex: Yes?
Roberta: Did… umm… Alex?
Alex: What?
Roberta: Did you think it was yummy?
Alex: Yes, did you?
Roberta: Yes. Do you like goats?
Alex: Goats?
Roberta: Do goats like gum?
Alex: I don’t know.
Roberta: Alex?
Alex: What?
Roberta: We keep gum in our house.
Alex: …
Roberta: Do you like ratatoil?
Alex: I don’t know what that is.
Roberta: It’s a food what is yummy.
Alex: You mean ratatouille?
Roberta: No. Ratatoil.
Alex: Well, then I’ve never tried it.
Roberta: Never?
Alex: No.
Roberta: Not in your whole life?
Alex: No.
Roberta: Will you come to my house?
Alex: Sometime, perhaps.
Roberta: We have lipstick.
Alex: Uh-huh.
Roberta: And gum.
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