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How to get only visible text from a choice?

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Description

**Situation**
- As I'm injecting in external dialogue at runtime, I have to maintain my own story history

**Complication**
As the `Choice` object doesn't expose the raw choice text, I have no easy way of omitting this from my story history

**Example**
If I have
```
* [I'm ready] -> choosePet
```

then calling `this.activeStory.currentChoices[0].text` returns "I'm ready" and as far as I can tell there's no metadata / way to get the original string ( `[I'm ready]` )

Additionally, as I can't seem to be able to get tags added to choices I don't have a clean way of marking doing

**Workaround**
Prefix lines with "no-history" and parse that out, the drawback is I have to overwrite regular Choice object's `text` property to my Ink wrapper as that includes the prefix

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