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198:, but this job only barely allows her to pay her bills and the majority of her coworkers treat her with disdain. Her boss Rupert is the most dismissive of her co-workers, and he has no problem sending her to a client that fully expected Judith to have sex with him in exchange for selling his paintings through the auction house. It is after this last act that Judith meets up with an old acquaintance named Leanne, who introduces her to the a
236:. The agent disliked the initial draft and Hilton abandoned the idea until years later when she decided to revisit the draft and combine it with a manuscript she wrote while working at an auction house in London. She submitted the finished product to her agent, who disliked the new manuscript as well, and to various publishing houses, where it was repeatedly rejected. Hilton briefly considered
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who specializes in forged paintings. She manages to trick the seller, Cameron
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