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Joy's bad luck at finding a boyfriend through her school's "Match Quiz" is compounded by her interfering (but lovable) uncle, who moves in with the family following his stroke. With his "help," Joy cautiously befriends Max, a boy who wants to avoid the identity-swamping "derangement" of teenage crushes, but derangement eventually wins out in this hopeful examination of family ties and young love.