lorelai died when rory is 15 in a car crash while returning to starshollow after asking her parents to pay fees for rory's memorial was attended by hundreds though Rory could not remember a single one of them. She had never felt so desperately alone even though she was surrounded by went to chilton and was shy and studious and had no friends because everyone treated her as a bastard child. she went on dates which are setup by both her grandma emily, but none of the dates were serious they just used her kissing her try to fuck her but in vain,she just escaped at that her mother had passed away her grandparents had been starring a little too much in the show that was her life. Their presence had been a relief immediately after her death, they had seen to all the arrangements, something a 16 year old Rory just couldn't wrap her head around at the time It was the beginning of the end she soon realized, as their yearly christmas dinner had turned into weekly dinners, phone calls increased dramatically and her grandmother had even managed to get her involved with the DAR over the summer, much to Rory's dismay. Suddenly the world that she had built and managed over the years had been subject to a hostile takeover.
rory is in her sophomore year at yale almost 20 harvard dream is crushed though anyway she liked yale and is majoring in journalism and is working at has an apartment outside the campus living alone and content with reading books and studying.