I want to live in the artificial worlds Richard Curtis creates, with their aesthetic rules and regulations, if only to live in a world where problems are surmountable, and everyone is funny.
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Hope Rehak writes for and about film, theater, and television. She recently earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University, and previously graduated from Chicago Public Schools and Oberlin College. Her comedy writing has appeared on Reductress and The Tangential, and you can find even more of her at hoperehak.com.
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