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As all graduating students do, Gaby was working on her year-end senior project. She never imagined her presentation would make national news. Or that she’d be asked to write a book about her experience. Or that Alexa Vega would play her on TV, with Judy Reyes as her mom in a Lifetime movie. Then again, it’s pretty unusual that a teenager would fake a pregnancy for almost six months as a homework assignment.