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Priscilla Vanderwaale's Dream

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In almost every teenage romantic comedy, the dorky, hopeless heroine-in-the-rough gets a make-over. Afterward, she struts down the halls of her high school or makes a big entrance at the school dance. Everyone’s jaws would drop as they wondered who this hot piece of fresh meat was, because surely they must be new. Until someone realized it wasn’t a new student, but the mousy girl they’d spent their entire educational careers overlooking and making fun of. It was a moment that Priscilla Vanderwaale had watched unfold on her television screen for years with a roll of her dull blue eyes. Things like that don’t happen in real life. She would say this to herself as she flopped down onto her giant canopy bed. People didn’t go through years of being

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