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The story starts in a café following the life of a waitress, Jesse, and in a moment of bold self-confidence she introduces herself to a man she was serving, Ethan, who is a struggling writer pushed to the edge of despair after having another novel rejected by publishers. For her, it was more than a chance to meet someone; she thought she could inspire him and be the muse he needed to get over the hump. He is then to ask her out on a date and she accepts. He looked like the perfect guy for her. A moment later, in walks Troy, a confident and successful advertising executive. After picking up his order he tells her that he doesn’t usually introduce himself to random girls he meets but he thinks that this time is different and that he would regret not asking her for her number. She is flattered and so she gives it to him. She starts going out with both guys; they are portrayed as very similar guys with similar taste in almost everything. For example she would go out with Ethan to play miniature golf and then she goes with Troy to a huge classy golf course. Although they are similar, they are different; they come from different class levels, different backgrounds and financial statuses. Ethan is a middle class man; in fact he told her that he is an aspiring author who is about to give up on writing because he hasn’t been able to make a living out of it. On the other hand; Troy is completely different in that regard, he is very successful, he is a co-owner of a very efficacious advertising company that he is planning on expanding, he is a self-built man who lives a lavish life. As time passes Jesse starts falling for both guys, her indecisiveness and secrecy start getting to her and messing with her head, until she finally comes to a point where she has to makeup her mind. At first Ethan proposes and then Troy asks her to move away with him to a different state. She is torn and unable to make the decision, all that is shown is her breaking up with Ethan and packing as if she’s moving with Troy. While she is leaving for the airport Ethan receives a letter that says that he has been published, he rushes to the airport so he can stop Jesse but is unable to make it before takeoff. It has been stated before that she was once married to a man she had really loved but then divorced, and that she has always wanted a big family and dreamed that she would, by that age, have four kids. He goes back home to find Jesse waiting for him; as they start talking Jesse tells him that she has something important to say. She tells him that she was planning on moving away but couldn’t go through with it before telling him something and explaining herself. She says that the reason she was moving is because she didn’t want to stand in the way of his happiness and his future, she tells him that she is barren, and that her infertility was the reason behind her divorce. What we are yet to know is that there was no other guy; there was no Troy. Troy was a work of Ethan’s imagination, he was what he thought Jesse deserved, he was the guy he wanted to be, the guy he thinks is right for her and that was all in Ethan’s, soon to be published book, “girl meets Troy”. As he hands her the script he tells her that he loves her and that he is not like her ex-husband, that he can’t see his future without her, that they belong together and would be able to make it work and have children some other way. Finally, the last scene is their wedding as they are happily saying their vows and committing to each other, surrounded by family and friends, and leaving the church in an old, broken down, barely working car that has the phrase “just married” written on its rear windshield.

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