LORELAI remembers getting the call. Wallowing was something the Gilmore women were accustomed too, given the number of suitors over the years. Rory had confronted Logan over the texts from his work wife Noelle. "They were just friends with common interests." Their common interest was staring at Noelle's ass. The photos on his laptop were evidence of that.
To this day, Lorelai thinks, "I hate the name Noelle." Men and women can't be friends. Didn't she and Luke prove that. After one year of concentrating on deciphering when the emotional cheating would turn physical instead of focusing on the starving orphans in front of her, Rory sent him the divorce papers from Guatemala. She never felt freer. Then she got the call about Richard's tests. He had a tumor.