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I love your magazine and look forward to every copy. As an expat who has lived in California for over 40 years I eagerly await every edition and many of your articles evoke happy memories of times gone by. But this one in particular brought to mind a memory which I had all butCadbury’s Factory in a Garden [Vol 91 Issue 6]. You see, along with Roald Dahl (though I never knew him) I was chosen among many contestants to be a Cadbury Taster! Every month for a year I received chocolates for review, and as a 10-year-old, how important that made me feel! The final month the chocs came in a lovely tin with a picture of Bourneville on the front and a certificate confirming that I had been an official Cadbury’s Taster. Unlike Mr. Dahl, the experience never changed my life, but I have never lost my love of Cadbury’s chocolates.

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