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I think the staying power of something like Gilmore Girls is in large part due to the townspeople of Stars Hollow because it gave us a place to go home to and where people, as quirky as you were, you were still loved by everybody in town and it was a safe place. And you just loved seeing all those kooky, crazy characters and want to come back to them. I just told the fans, thank you for keeping the show alive. It's so exciting to meet. people that adore the show and the experience that they had either watching it with their mothers or now sharing it with their daughters and we've had multiple generations watching the show and that's really cool to have been involved with a show that stands the test of time. In a tv show and especially when you're doing multiple episodes like we would do back in the day of 22 episodes you could really challenge the characters. And our season had the theme of characters coming together and breaking apart, and that was so great because Emily and Richard split apart and they came together. And that just, when you throw conflict at certain characters, you see how they respond, and that's a great way to learn more about them. And Kelly Bishop talked about that today on panels on how she could seem really tough in the beginning of the series, and the more time you got to spend with her, the more we got to see other sides of her. Well, I got to use a lot of my own real life in it because I had a very vocal grandmother, mother, and sister. My grandmother was very much like Emily Gilmore. So I just relished being able to write for characters like that. And I just have always been drawn to writing for women, and they're just so much more honest and open and emotional. And that's the kind of writing I like to do.