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I forgot to do this yesterday....I am not going to explain the story of "Les Miserables" in the reviews. If you are one of the 8 people who has never seen "Les Miserables", here is a link to the synopsis on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29#Synopsis

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