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Paris Geller

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Paris Geller is introduced in the second episode of season 1 and makes her last appearance in the penultimate episode of season 7. The child of wealthy Jewish parents, she was raised almost completely by her Portuguese nanny. Initially, Paris is threatened by Rory's academic prowess, which is compounded by her schoolmate crush, Tristan Dugray, budding interest in Rory.
Her two best friends at Chilton are Madeline and Louise, although their focus is fashion and dating in contrast to Paris' dedication to academics. Paris and Rory's rivalry continues unabated and periods of hostility arise, but after Paris and Rory bond at a Bangles concert in New York, they slowly become close friends. Both Paris and Rory share a dream of studying at Harvard, but both attend Yale in season four.
In season three, Paris starts her first romantic relationship with a Princeton student, Jamie. Rory is her reluctant adviser about dating and counsels Paris about her relationship. Paris ends the relationship with Jamie in season four when she starts an affair with a much older man and a Yale professor, Asher Fleming. The affair ends when Asher dies while the two are summering at Oxford. Paris starts to date Yale Daily News editor Doyle McMaster after exhaustion during a speed dating session the two attend, and eventually moves in with him, though involuntarily as her parents fled the country to avoid tax evasion charges at the start of the sixth season, leaving Paris without any financial means outside of loans and a closed trust not yet opened due to her age. Paris attends Yale also and is roommates with Rory for all four years. She is finally accepted into Harvard Medical School towards the end of the series. Paris is consistently nervous about meeting standards and is often angry when annoyed, having an extreme Type A personality.
In the revival, it was revealed that she went into reproductive medicine, running a successful surrogacy/fertility clinic in New York known as Dynasty Makers, which Lorelai and Luke visit while considering having a child of their own. She has two children of her own with Doyle; a girl, Gabriela, and a boy, Timóteo, though she is in the middle of a separation with Doyle over the course of her arc. She also still holds her crush on Tristan Dugray, and upon seeing him from afar during a student day in Chilton, lashes out about not meeting the expectations of others. In an argument with Francine Jarvis a few moments later, it is revealed that she additionally passed the bar and has a law practice license, is an expert on classical architecture, and may also be a certified dental technician.