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The $28M Slippers

A 28 million dollar pair of shoes? An anonymous bidder spent the 28 million bucks on the ruby slippers

Level: B1 · 9 sentences

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  1. A 28 million dollar pair of shoes?
  2. An anonymous bidder spent the 28 million bucks on the ruby slippers
  3. from the legendary movie The Wizard of Oz.
  4. These iconic kicks were worn by the one and only Judy Garland.
  5. The price kept going up and up, but the bidder was like, "I'll get you, my pretties!"
  6. The bid set a new record for the most money ever spent at auction on a piece of movie memorabilia.
  7. The dazzling slippers are one of only four surviving pairs.
  8. And these were actually stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Minnesota in 2005,
  9. before they finally found their way back in 2018.