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[quote=Anonymous]Since this is an anonymous forum, I freely admit I was one of the alpha girls, and I like my life now. I am by your FB voyeur viewing standards "successful." I had a really weird experience a while back when a girl I knew in high school claimed my circle of friends, including me, were very mean to her and made her feel left out. In all actuality, no, we did not. She was not in our friend group, and we were not in hers, so we did not interact. That was not "mean".  It was simply high school. She probably left people out all the time, but thought nothing of it -- because she had decided we were the in circle, our leaving her out took on this whole new significance in her mind.

Bottom line, most people just aren't that cruel. They are simply caught up in their own lives and issues. Singling out someone and ridiculing them or standing by when it happens is wrong and awful. Not being your bestie, well, I mean, come on.

The reason most of the alpha girls I knew are still happy, pretty and successful now is because they were the alpha girls because everyone else envied their happy, lucky, in the moment way of living.

Read Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld -- she does a good job explaining this, I think, through the eyes of a left-out, underprivileged kid in a prep school.  [/quote]

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