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I think you will know exactly what I mean when I say, I yearn for a Stars Hollow life. It’s not the fast patter of the banter between Rory and Lorelei, but rather it’s this fictionalized community they live in. Breakfast where everyone knows your name (and your order), friends stopping by, the quint flickering of street lamps at night and houses all decorated at Christmas, a constant hum of interconnected lives and people who care about you.
The emotional resonance of this yearning - to live a small town life where neighbors care and life isn’t complicated by big city problems - is the cornerstone of a vast Hallmark movie catalog and a foundation of the culture war the right is currently running on social media.
The tradwives have gotten all of the attention, with their aprons and aesthetically perfected content that fee…