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Blogs Cliopatria The Gold Ticket

Jul 21, 2005

The Gold Ticket

by Cliopatria

The movie will not be out in the UK for a couple of weeks, and I am not sure what to think about it -- when I first encountered"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" when I was eight or so, it was my very favorite book. Nonetheless, I thought this was a great story about a real Charlie in a chocolate factory in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.