Lorelai blinked a few times at how Angelo was talking about this. With a name like Genovese, it wasn't hard to imagine what he might have been talking about, even if all Rory's assumptions weren't actually correct in their entirety. "Yeah," she finally agreed emphatically. "Yeah, that is how it feels. I'm trying to pretend. But... I don't think I can stop. I want to be the real me, but that's fucking terrifying. And besides, I don't lend the best first impressions. And I want to be good and help people but I keep coming back to the idea that maybe it's just the heroism I like. Maybe it's the adrenaline."
A brief pause.
"Can it be both? Does it make me a bad person that I can't live without that action, even if I still genuinely want to help people?"
