1.
When Rory showed Emily the shed that she and Lorelai used to live in:
2.
When Lorelai was completely devastated over her breakup with Luke and couldn't even get out of bed:
3.
When Lorelai graduated from business school and Emily and Richard finally showed that they were proud of her:
4.
When Lorelai realized she couldn't go through with marrying Max:
5.
When Rory and Lorelai both broke down because they thought they were failures:
6.
When Rory broke up with Jess at graduation:
7.
When Lorelai told Christopher she couldn't talk to him because it hurt too much:
8.
When Rory was valedictorian of Chilton and dedicated her graduation speech to Lorelai:
9.
When Rory got on a bus and went to New York to say goodbye to Jess:
10.
When, in the flashback episode, Emily found the note from 16-year-old Lorelai telling them she was running away from home:
11.
When Rory slept with Dean while he was married:
12.
When Luke finally wanted to get married, but then Lorelai told him she slept with Christopher:
13.
When Rory finally let herself cry about her breakup with Dean:
14.
When Logan's dad told Rory she wasn't good enough to be a journalist:
15.
When Rory and Logan said goodbye before he left for London:
16.
When Rory accidentally missed curfew after her dance with Dean, and Lorelai and Emily got into a big fight over it:
17.
When Luke and Lorelai had a huge fight after Rory and Jess got into a car accident:
18.
When Dean realized Rory had feelings for Jess:
19.
When Paris got rejected from Harvard and had a breakdown about it on C-SPAN:
20.
When Jess told Rory he loved her, then immediately drove off:
21.
When Lorelai told Emily how she really felt about everything:
22.
When Rory broke down and cried to Lorelai about Logan:
23.
When Jess went to California to find his dad, only to be told he couldn't help him:
24.
When Emily went on a date with someone new after she and Richard separated, but then just sobbed when she got home:
25.
When Dean broke up with Rory in front of everyone at the dance marathon:
26.
When Jess confronted Rory about dropping out of Yale:
27.
When Lorelai and Rory finally reconciled after not speaking for months:
28.
When Emily grieved Richard's death in the revival:
29.
When Rory turned down Logan's proposal:
30.
And finally, THOSE LAST FOUR WORDS: