(1) I really don’t know how it all went wrong. (2) It started out as a simple idea—I wanted to make a birthday cake for my mother. (3) My mom has always been a wonderful cook. (4) I had never successfully baked anything—much less something as complicated as a cake. (5) She was working late that day, so I rushed home from school to get started on the cake. (6) I got out the recipe book and found a recipe for "Delicious Chocolate Cake." (7) I ran around the kitchen gathering ingredients. (8) The first thing listed on the recipe was cocoa. (9) "Hmm . . . I know! I can use some Coco Puffs cereal!" I said to myself. (10) Then, the recipe called for baking soda. (11) I looked into the fridge and found some diet soda in a can. (12) "This looks like the stuff," I said and poured the whole can of diet soda into the mixing bowl.
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Choose the word or words that would best connect sentences 6 and 7.
A.
For example,
B.
Then,
C.
Suddenly,
D.
Finally,