Behind the movie: the girl who got dumped and then got famous.(Real lives)(Jennifer Weiner )(Brief Article)

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When Jennifer Weiner had her heart broken, she didn't gorge on chocolate, watch weepy movies, or live in her sweatpants. Instead, she started writing. Today, Weiner is a novelist whose best-selling book In Her Shoes has been turned into a movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Cameron Diaz. But in 2000, Weiner was just a Philadelphia newspaper reporter whose long-term relationship had gone down in flames.

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"All I wanted was to get this guy back," she says with a slight grimace. "So I thought, I'll write a story about a girl who gets dumped and how she wants the guy back, ...

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