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The worst was the “Friend Group Power Ranking.” It listed the top ten most popular girls, but next to each name was a number in parentheses—their “security score.” A low score meant you were on the verge of being voted off the island. Girls who had been friends since kindergarten suddenly stopped talking. Lunch tables reconfigured overnight. A girl named Sarah, a loyal and kind junior, saw her security score drop from 8 to 3. She had no idea what she’d done. She spent a week apologizing for things she hadn’t done, until her eyes were hollow. schoolgirls list
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