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BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by the true friendship writer-director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when she looked up her father on the Internet. Lily Trevino, who often plays the role of caretaker to people like her father who are supposed to take care of her, longs 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 endured 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 – 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 their lives. Bob’s small acts of fatherly kindness fill a familial void in Lily’s life and have the power to change its course forever. Each in their own way, these two must learn that they deserve extraordinary love, exemplified through small acts of kindness.