In high school, my three best friends were Meeghan, Sarah and Caroline. We hung out every day and went everywhere together, used to have “Beverly Hills 90210 parties” every Thursday as a joke. They were a year older than I was and took me to clubs (sophomore year! I was at a club! Haha). I loved them (and still do love them). They were brilliant and super-hot and we loved the same music, which is always important in high school haha, especially back then in the 90’s. Anybody who loved “weird” music always glommed on to each other.
Meeghan ended up going to NYU for college and now she lives in Austin with her husband. She’s very happy, a professor somewhere there. I give her gardening tips all the time (“normal” gardening tips, not weed tips haha).
Sarah ended up going to New College in Sarasota and then Columbia for grad school. She and her wife just moved to Asheville from NYC a couple years ago with their two adopted daughters. They’re also very happy.
Caroline was the valedictorian of our high school, which was actually a huge deal. It was a very competitive school where everybody was just expected to go to Ivy League or otherwise-“good” colleges. And then she went to Harvard.
Now all Caroline does is rant on Facebook about the Illuminati and how Donald Trump is our savior and how she’s the reincarnation of Joan of Arc and also the reincarnation of Jesus and multiple other historical figures. I don’t know what happened to her, really, or how that happened, although I’ve tried to kind of “talk her down” about that. Eventually, though, I just had to get off of Facebook and quit talking to her on the phone. There’s no saving her, I don’t think, she seems totally out of her mind.
I’m bringing this up apropos of nothing haha…