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Lucy Chen is a 24-year-old college student currently taking a break from school. She's been studying psychology, but lately she's been questioning whether it's really the path she wants to follow. She loves helping people, but she isn't sure she can picture herself spending the rest of her life in psychology.
With school on pause, Lucy takes a job as a nanny for Tim Bradford, a 34-year-old single dad with a four-year-old daughter, Lottie. She expects the job to simply give her something to do while she figures out her next step.
Instead, caring for Lottie begins to show Lucy a side of herself she didn't know was there.
For the first time in a long time, Lucy starts wondering if maybe she doesn't need to have her entire future figured out yet-and maybe the unexpected path is exactly where she's supposed to be.
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