'Got' is the grammatically correct choice in that sentence. 'Gotten' may be common usage in American English, but then so is 'drug' as a past tense of 'to drag' or 'would of' instead of 'would have' and I wouldn't use those in narrative either.
As far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable use of 'gotten' would be in the dialogue of a character who would use that grammatically incorrect usage in everyday speech. In other words, it's acceptable to use it if you're trying to capture the essence of a character and the character would use it, which limits it to first person point of view narrative or dialogue.
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Date: 2006-04-20 08:02 pm (UTC)As far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable use of 'gotten' would be in the dialogue of a character who would use that grammatically incorrect usage in everyday speech. In other words, it's acceptable to use it if you're trying to capture the essence of a character and the character would use it, which limits it to first person point of view narrative or dialogue.