Wild Author Cheryl Strayed’s Sweet Story About Watching Gilmore Girls With Her Daughter Will Have You Misty-Eyed

Not only was author Cheryl Strayed’s novel “Wild” placed in a scene where Lorelai is reading, the show sees her character living out plenty of wild moments of her own in an homage to the book, in which Cheryl recounts an extended hiking trip following her own mother’s death.

Taking Netflix’s advice to watch the show with her own daughter, the author shared her story about experiencing those moments together on Instagram.

“Gobsmacked and honored by the Wild homage in @gilmoregirlsYear in the Life. I watched it yesterday with my daughter, Bobbi (who is named after my mother). Like so many people, in Lorelai and Rory I see pieces of myself, my mother and my daughter. That scene when Lorelai wanders behind the closed store and looks out across the wild landscape and then calls her mom? Took my breath away and made me cry (after laughing at so many other parts). I reached for my daughter’s hand and told her someday she’d understand why I was crying. She said, ‘I understand already mom.’ Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and all the people who made this show: Thank you. Y’all touched so many of our hearts.”

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Gobsmacked & honored by the Wild homage in @gilmoregirls Year in the Life. I watched it yesterday with my daughter, Bobbi (who is named after my mother). Like so many people, in Lorelai and Rory, I see pieces of myself, my mother, and my daughter. That scene when Lorelai wanders behind the closed store near the trail and looks out across the wild landscape then calls her mom? Took my breath away and made me cry (after laughing at so many others parts). I reached for my daughter's hand and told her someday she'd understand why I was crying. She said, "I understand already, Mom." Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and all the people who made this show: thank you. Y'all touched so many of our hearts. #gilmoregirls #staywild

A post shared by Cheryl Strayed (@cherylstrayed) on Nov 26, 2016 at 3:53pm PST

Okayyy, we’re not even already through the series yet and we’re tearing up (although we guess it MIGHT make sense that a woman who makes a living writing would be able to move us with her words, eh)?

We understand too, Cheryl. We understand.

Did you watch the series with your mom or daughter? Tell us over @BritandCo.

(h/t Entertainment Weekly, photos via Netflix, Tim P. Whitby + Joe Scanici/Getty)