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Have you ever noticed how the stories we tell ourselves shape our lives? For Jane Jackson, former child star of the hit sitcom "Pop Rocks," life has been one long performance. At eleven, she became Janey Jakes, the awkward keyboardist whose embarrassments were punctuated by laugh tracks and her catchphrase "Poor Janey." Now at thirty-three, Jane approaches dating like a method actor preparing for a role-tracking word counts, rehearsing casual reactions, and suppressing her natural wit. She's convinced that men prefer women who laugh at their jokes rather than make their own. But when her screenplay "True Story" needs a commercial hook, Jane impulsively claims she can secure an original song from chart-topping musician Jack Quinlan-the same boy who publicly rejected her at fourteen, spawning tabloid headlines that haunted her through high school. This desperate lie forces Jane to confront the narrative she's constructed about herself since that mortifying night-a story of unworthiness that has directed her life for far too long.