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- Roald Dahl: Unlike most of the other stories I've written, the one you're about to see happens to be true. I'm not going to say much more than that about it, or I'll give the game away and spoil it for everyone. But it is a true story. And before I wrote it I researched the facts very thoroughly, because I wanted everything to be as accurate as possible. The dialogue is obviously invented, but the details are correct. And by the way, let's get one thing clear. All the names that I use for persons or places were authentic at the time of the happening.