Yesterday, I decided to bake a cake. I worked hard to mix the ingredients and, poured it in the pan, and placed the pan into the oven. Twenty minutes later, I heard the time go off and reached into the oven to pull it out. I quickly realized I had forgotten to put oven mitts on! Obviously, it hurt a great deal! As a result, I ended up with a yummy cake but extremely burned hands.

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