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BOB TREVINO LIKE TO is inspired by the real-life friendship writer-director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger while searching for her father online. Lily Trevino, who often plays the role of caregiver to people like her father who are supposed to be taking care of her, yearns for family connection, having been abandoned by her mother as a child and then suddenly by her father in her twenties. Bob Trevino works long hours alone at a construction company to support his wife Jeanie’s scrapbooking habit. The couple has been through a lot over the past decade, and Bob has tried to put his wife first, to the point of ignoring his own feelings and need for friendship, meaning, and connection—until he receives an unexpected Facebook message from a stranger. The budding friendship between Lily and Bob becomes an important source of connection and healing in their lives. Bob’s small acts of fatherly kindness fill the void of family in Lily’s life and have the power to change her direction forever. Both must learn, each in their own way, that they are worthy of extraordinary love, which will be expressed through small acts of kindness.