As the days and months stumble on, it's hard to remember that long ago and faraway time when Gossip Girl, a television show about feelings, wasn't a part of our lives. Luckily for us, Us Weekly, a magazine about the daily sadnesses of not being rich and famous, has provided a photo album retrospective of our favorite bitchy, unfortunately acting Manhattan teens. So go look, and try to remember the kind of September, in 2003, when you didn't know who Chace Crawford was. Album is here, and the absolute best photo of the bunch is after the jump.

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