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It was the TV character arc heard round the world: after learning her boyfriend’s dad didn’t think she had what it takes to be a journalist, Rory Gilmore 1. Dropped out of Yale. 2. Stole a yacht and stopped talking to her mom. 3. Grew into the kind of journalist who didn’t have pitches prepared and didn’t ask good questions. But, according to one Reddit theory, Gilmore Girls actually hinted Rory wasn’t cut out for the career at the very beginning of the series. “Do you guys remember how in S1, at Chilton, Rory was given a very mundane journalistic task about the paving of the parking lot, and …

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