My Parents Forced Me to Be Friends With a Mean Girl for Years. Now We’re All Grown Up, And I Might Have to Even the Score.
Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. “Alice” was the mean friend that my stepmother forced me to socialize with for social clout.
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Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. “Alice” was the mean friend that my stepmother forced me to socialize with for social clout. I was the dreamy, quiet kid more interested in my books than anything else, while Alice was bossy and physically abusive. She would pinch me and pull my hair if I wasn’t worshiping her like the princess she thought she was.
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- Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. “Alice” was the mean friend that my stepmother forced me to socialize with for social clout.
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My Parents Forced Me to Be Friends With a Mean Girl for Years. Now We’re All Grown Up, And I Might Have to Even the Score.
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