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by: coldwish

When I was very young, lo’ these many decades ago now, I was invited to a birthday slumber party by a girl my age. We were maybe 10 or 11 years old. She invited many girls from our school. I was not very popular, being fairly new (i.e. not having been there at least 3 generations), and she was not very popular either. I was excited to be invited but also hesitant. I didn’t really know her. I knew where she stood in the social hierarchy of girls, and I knew I stood not very much higher. But all the other girls were the cool ones I liked, so I accepted.

On the day of the party my mother dropped me off at this girl's house up on the ridge. I arrived thinking I was the first and soon found out I was to be the ONLY guest that night. All the other girls had canceled: sick, busy, grounded, not interested and too polite to reject the invitation right out, or just didn’t show. It was easier to come up with a last minute excuse not to go. I was mortified as I watched the realization dawn on her that no one else was coming to the party.
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