It’s been 25 years since the world was first introduced to Gilmore Girls and its fast-talking, coffee-stalking mother and daughter — but you wouldn’t know it given the passion of old fans and the slew of eager new ones.

Within an hour of my September arrival at the A Weekend in the Life convention in New Milford, Connecticut — one of the towns that supposedly inspired the ’00s (and beyond) phenomenon Gilmore Girls, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel — I’m approached by no less than five kind strangers ready to chat.

A Taylor Doose type representing the local historical society points to the nearby gazebo (“It’s a bandstand!” I can almost hear him correcting me) as he recalls an Ohio man popping the question to his Gilmore-obsessed girlfriend (now fiancée).

A Mrs. Kim stand-in — th

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