But I Want It Now!

Lessons from Veruca Salt

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One of my all time favorite childhood books was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. When the movie based on the book, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the one with Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka), came out it became one of the few movies that in my mind just may have eclipsed the book. It is still one of my all time favorites. (The Johnny Depp version was good, but still doesn’t beat the…