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Gilmore Girls · S2 E13 · Jess Mariano
Jess and Rory's picnic deal: The Fountainhead
Rand's 1943 novel stars an architect who would rather dynamite his own building than see it compromised, and twelve publishers turned it down. Jess agreeing to read it for Rory is the closest he comes to compromise all season.