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For a moment, she pretended she was in Miami

The fantasy was short-lived Loo ahead was a second Monica billboard—another reminder of

her disastrous failure

What no one kneas that without her new book, she couldn’t pay Jonny

Meaning she, PJ Wallis, was finished Monica had won after all

And then she frowned Like the first billboard, this Monica also lacked her leg

Despite the circuhter She suddenly had a crazy urge to call SondraBeth Schnowzer to tell her that Monica’s leg was still

SondraBeth was the only person in the world ould have appreciated the hilarity of the situation

The car rounded the corner, and Pandy took one last look at the billboard as her laughter turned to tears And for the first ti time, Pandy reo when it was new and fresh and exciting…

And how it had all started when she’d said those four fateful words:

“I want that girl”

PART TWO

CHAPTER FOUR

I WANT that girl!” Pandy had exclaimed

She was in Los Angeles, sitting in the backseat of a town car, when she’d seen the billboard It was hanging over Sunset right near the Chateau Mar round of auditions for the lead role of Monica