She was Pretty
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Last published Tue, Jan 17, 2017
The setting is a new intern, Lily James, starting her first official job at a publishing company. She's a hard working employee who does everything right her in own way. While working at her new job, she was asked to drop off a box of materials for the one of the popular magazine company, The Most, but the workroom is very busy and ends up correcting papers for the company not knowing that one of the reporters mistaken her for the new sub-editor. The next day, she's transferred to The Most as the new sub-editor after the reporter who mistakenly thought she was one of the editors. Lily is reported to work at the magazine company for only three months. As she works at the company, she doesn't realize that The Most is getting a new editor, David Joseph, who is Lily's first love from her childhood. Lily James has many frustrations while working at The Most with David watching over her as she deals with it. But the one thing is that everyone who looks at her thinks she's ugly.
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