This essay is part of HuffPost’s series “ This Made Me ,” a collection of stories about the pop culture that moves us. We republished it in time for the 25th anniversary of the premiere of “Gilmore Girls.” The “Gilmore Girls” revival premiered on Netflix in November 2016, the same week my mom found out she had stage 4 cancer. She got the news on a Wednesday afternoon, and it cast a pall over Thanksgiving the next day, but we tried to stay positive. We also didn’t want it to ruin the four new