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Baton Rouge, LA

Rory POV

I was appalled when I found out that Ted and Amelia Danbury were not my parents. I was hurt, angry, upset, and frankly felt like my whole childhood had been a lie.

Like my whole growing up in Louisiana was a lie, too.

Apparently, my real mother gave me up when she was sixteen. Some sort of "societal pressure" from her parents. I don't understand why she would do that.

I've always felt like a piece of me was missing, and on my eighteenth birthday, the gaping hole in my heart was further confirmed.

They told me the summer before my senior year. Now, that year was over.

This summer, I Rory Danbury, will travel to Connecticut to find my mother.

After finding the things out about how I was adopted, I was sort of confused for the rest of my senior year. However, I was able to confide in my best friend since childhood.

"So, you're actually going to find this woman?" Ashleigh asked one day after school.

"Yes. I know that she lives in Hartford, Connecticut, and I know the hospital I was born at. I can really do it from there, don't you think."

"Yes, but I worry about you getting hurt. I guess that is the best friend in me."

"Thanks, Ash."

I was grateful for Ashleigh's friendship, especially in the days after the "big reveal."

I was going to miss her so much as she headed to LSU, but I was fulfilling my dream of going to Yale. Conveniently, it was less than an hour away from Hartford.

Hopefully, going to Yale would strengthen my chances at forming a bond with my mom.

A few weeks later, I looked in the mirror as the sateen gown graced my shoulders. My mom came in after giving me a few minutes of silence.

"You look darlin' in your cap and gown."

"Thanks, mom."

Even though I was mad at my parents for keeping the secret for so long, once I understood the legality of the situation, it made much more sense.

No matter what, Amelia and Ted would forever be mom and dad.

And as I delivered my valedictory address that morning, they were the ones I thanked.

Now me finding my destiny and the journey that came along with it would begin.

And it just so happened to be on my birthday.

Mom and dad dropped me off at the airport and I bid adieu to my past and flew, quite literally, into my future.

Stars Hollow, CT

Lorelai's POV

"She would be nineteen this year. Nineteen years old."

I took the cake out of the oven.

It was a tradition of sorts. I made my little baby a cake for whatever birthday she had on whatever day. It was the one time I actually used my oven over the course of a year.

Just as I'll never forget holding her for the first time, I'll never forget the pain that tinged in my heart as I gave her away.

I know she's doing well, or I can at least hope so.

Even though I haven't been a mother for nineteen years now, a piece of me still is. I think that little yearning of always wanting to be a mother, however, has gone away.

My husband always has a "dark day" of sorts on the anniversary of his father's death, but I have today to mourn the loss of what could have been.

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