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DEAD ON ARRIVAL

—— DEAD ON ARRIVAL ——

Imagine this: you're twenty one, about to take life by the heels and make it you're bitch, and then it comes crashing down out of nowhere.

To love is to die, Jude's mother always said to her. She was an enigma, the outlier. Named for being one of the greats, her parents had wanted a son, they'd been told in their third month of pregnancy she'd be a boy, but low and behold the ultrasound technician had been wrong and she'd popped out a girl, ultimately destroying their promise for a strong male heir to take over the family name. In a room full of pretty princesses with fairytale names and the graces of elegance that Jude had once wanted to be, she was instead all but so. But Jude had a plan — she was in her third year of Yale, pre law, and she was going to conquer the world.

Going to — she was going to. Her plans are put to a steaming halt, a steering dent, when Jude's father kicks her out of the house, freezes her bank account, closes her trust fund and basically all but disowns her from the lives of her parents and four younger sisters. Completely alone with next to no friends, broke and the only possession beyond her clothes actually being the car she, technically speaking, stole from her father's garage while he was busy with her youngest's sister's party, Jude drives straight to the only place she knows left to go.

It's there that she makes a rather sketchy deal with one Lorelai Gilmore, wherein in exchange for taking Jude into her home and hiring her as a front desk clerk at the Dragonfly Inn, Jude will in turn keep an eye on a straying Rory Gilmore, who is currently not in good graces with Lorelai, even if that means hanging around her arrogant boyfriend and his band of egotistical idiots.

To love is to die, Jude's mother once said.

Jude just didn't think it would ever apply to her.

JUDE GRANGER (rachel mcadams)