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Actress Charlyne Yi has made her career playing excruciatingly awkward girls. Rachel Syme talks to the star of Paper Heart about Michael Cera and why she won’t be anyone’s “girlfriend.”

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Actress Charlyne Yi has made a career of playing excruciatingly awkward girls. Rachel Syme talks to the star of Paper Heart about Michael Cera and why she won’t be anyone’s “girlfriend.”

“I have this phobia of becoming someone’s ‘girlfriend,’” says Charlyne Yi, swiveling around on her chair inside the glass fishbowl...

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