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BOB TREVINO’S FAVORITE was inspired by the true friendship writer/director Tracy Lemmon found with a stranger while searching for her father online. Lily Trevino, who often plays the guardian of people like her father who should have been taking care of her, yearns for family connection after being abandoned by her mother as a child and then suddenly by her twenty-something father. Bob Trevino often works alone at a construction company to support his wife Ginny’s scrapbooking habit. The couple has been through a lot in the past decade, and Bob strives to put his wife first, until he ignores his own feelings and his needs for friendship, meaning, and connection—that is, until he receives an unexpected Facebook message from a stranger. Lily and Bob’s blossoming friendship becomes a vital source of connection and healing in both of their lives. Bob’s small acts of fatherly kindness fill the family void in Lily’s life and could change the course forever. Both must understand, in their own ways, that they are worthy of the extraordinary love shown through small acts of kindness.