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meeting to expose their affair publicly, for which she is fired. Meanwhile, another colleague - Ben, who has been performing several of Lucy's more mundane tasks for her - takes a phonecall from his mother and is summoned home for an 'emergency'. The two of them wind up leaving at the same time, and Ben's car troubles result in Lucy giving him a ride to his house. In the car, he experiences a flashback of the two of them as children - he telling her he loves her, and she not reciprocating and running away.
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