prevented me from going back on my word. Instead, I curled up beneath a blanket in the living room and watched the Spanish rom-com onscreen with increasing disgust. “Te amo,” the actor whispered in Spanish. English subtitles translated what he said. “Nunca te dejaré.” I’ll never leave you. “Ugh.” I scribbled furiously in my review notebook. “Film an after-the-movie special and see if that’s really true.” Romantic comedy was the most unrealistic genre in Hollywood. Falling off a seventh-floor balcony and getting up a minute later to chase after the bad guy was more believable than workplace
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