The Place of Inspiration
By Rory Gilmore
In a tiny town named Stars Hollow that is where I grew up. At the same time someone very dear to me was not having the best childhood. Let's start with the girl that became everything the boy needed to be.
After my mother had me, she fled to that little town of Stars Hollow in a shed of the Inn she now owns. Which was later named The Dragonfly Inn. My mother, my inspiration did the best she could with what she had. I grew reading the likes of Charles Dickens and the Brothers Grimm stories hoping there was something out for people who loved books as much as breathing. When I got accepted in Chilton an elite private school of New Haven that is when I met him the boy of the story. However he wasn't a student at the school, no.
The boy grew up in New York moving to one place to another with his mother. His father, the boy had always known as the one that left when he was barely a day old. After years of moving he was finally sent to that little town of Stars Hollow.
This story is not an easy one so therefore let's start with when these two met.
My mother and I are two people you should never argue about old classics because we could shoot you out the water with our pop culture references. And the one thing that balanced my dear kooky mother was a local diner owner. Over the years he became sort of a father figure to me. That diner owner was always the one supplying my mother and I with obscene amounts of coffee, commenting on my mother's poor choice of diet which including the coffee. This diner man was also the go to man for fixing our house which we dearly called 'The Crap Shack.'
But their partnership is whole other story.
The boy from the big city and the girl of the small town met on his first day to Star Hollow. That diner owner was the boy's uncle.
The one thing the boy and the girl had in common was their love of books and the fantasy it contained. When girl asking the boy if he read much, he answered 'What's much' and walked out. There was the girl clutching a copy of 'Howl' in her hand, she opened her beloved book to find pencil at the side and that where the writing in the margins began.
They had an awkward start and began dating shortly after.
Just like every other high school relationship it ended him leaving as he travelled across the US to see his estranged dad in Venice Beach.
The girl heartbroken started her new journey at Yale and that's where she discovered herself.
Lets fast forward to where the girl was not coping well with her classes and the constant pressure of having to be the best. The girl finally collapsed, stealing a yacht and dropping out of Yale. The first few months was hard, the girl fell out with her mother about dropping out. The consequences of stealing that Yatch had to complete community service.
Then the boy with difficult childhood, leaving the heartbroken girl appeared out of nowhere carrying an edition of his very first novel. The girl whose life had fallen apart by some simple words was now planning meaningless parties and functions for the elite of New Haven. The boy wanted to share with the girl with what he had accomplished. That boy had grown up into a man who had a very bad start in life always moving around never having a permanent residence for more than a few months at a time. The boy had sat down and written a whole novel.
Jess Mariano may have been raised in New York but he was made in Philadelphia. And as much as the girl would want to say she had a hand in the boy Jess Mariano' success, Philadelphia was his home and the one place of inspiration.
I hope that the girl in this story would be able to make her success in Philadelphia just like that boy did.
