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[quote=Anonymous]The Alpha girls when I was growing up seemed to have it all. Beauty queens, homecoming/prom queens, cheerleading squad, good grades, (you get the picture), the world was their oyster. I would not say they were "mean" but they seemed to travel in their own beautiful space.

But I recall being at a birthday party for one of them in 6th grade (before I wasn't cool enough to be friends with anymore LOL) and I was in the house looking for the bathroom when I overheard the mom berating the girl, really dressing her down for eating too much birthday cake. "I will not, I repeat NOT buy you a bigger size of clothing,, you are going to be FAT and then what will you do, you acted like a pig and if you are going to act like a pig you will be treated like a pig, you are going to tell your baton teacher what you did" (this girl was an amazing baton twirler, went on to twirl for her university band). I mean, really being mean to the girl. I (being all of 11 or 12 years old) high tailed it out of there... I never forgot that and I never looked at her life the same way again realizing that while she was little miss everything, she really lost out where it counts most.

The second alpha girl I did not know quite as well. She went to college, moved away, got married and had a couple of kids. Our moms were/are good friends. She wasn't mean to anyone, she just basically ignored everyone that was not in her circle.

My mom told me a few months ago that alpha girl, (now 48) just had her 3rd relapse of breast cancer. She underwent surgery again but it was not operable so they basically sewed her back up without doing much. Her mom told my mom she had months to live. Her 9yo and 13yo kids will not have their mom anymore. I wrote her a note just to tell her she and her family were in my thoughts and prayers. We've emailed a few times since.

I guess OP, what I'm trying to say is just get over it. High school doesn't really matter. You are an adult and if you are obsessing over this stuff you probably need therapy. These women are just human beings with the same problems, issues, worries and vulnerabilities that we all have. I have/had zero joy at the notion of either of these people having troubles.[/quote]

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