My brother. He wasn't unintelligent, just not that interested in school. He was social and kind of lazy. He is currently an RN (Registred Nurse) in a level one trauma center, going to school to be an NP (Nurse Practitioner) , and married to a beautiful, kind, super smart woman who is also an ER (Emergency Room) RN. He is one of the most wonderful human beings I've ever met and I'm so proud of the man he's become.

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Best friend in high school was kind of a mess; hanging out with older guys from the wrong side of the tracks, drinking smoking pot, etc. She became a heroin addict and disappeared for 15 years. She re-emerged as a recovering addict, got a masters degree in addiction psychology, married a wealthy rancher, became an addiction therapist, lost 100 pounds, lived happily ever after.

I thought she was goner.

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The prettiest girl in high school, who was always nice to me (I was a bullied child) overdosed on heroin two years ago. I still cry for her.

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I was probably that friend. Overachiever, highest grades, super nerd throughout high school. In everybody's minds, mine included, I was headed to a great university career in engineering. Dropped out (technically "left it hanging" as you can do it in my country) after 2 years, traveled Europe and Vegas as a poker journalist. Heading back now to finish the degree I started 10 years ago, and I don't regret a single moment!

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In my graduating class of 149, we had 148 go to college. That one guy? He decided to go “on tour” with his band. The other members of the band were two guys that graduated from our school the year before.

About 6 years later, they are still touring full time and have made a pretty good name for themselves. They’ve headlined their own tours and have opened for some big name bands. It’s pretty cool to get to go to one of their shows and hang out with them backstage.

Edit: for all those asking, the bands name is New Madrid.

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Punk lesbian who used to get me into soooo many shady situations in high school, skipping, stealing cars staying out all night, getting high. She moved for university, married a Greek Orthodox man, bought a house in the suburbs and popped out 5 kids before she turned 30. Her FB posts are now all hawking girl guide cookies and taking about the PTA and kids softball games.
So f*****g weird.

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I would probably be a good post about this but since this isn't about myself here we go:

A girl who was in the top 10 of my graduating class. Had plans to become a lawyer and probably would have succeeded seeing as how her 'mock trial' team won state. Went to college and learned she enjoyed the 'arts' much more. Briefly become an actress, but failed. Moved back home with her parents and started her own photography business but failed. Now she is a very successful burlesque dancer! While she has failed in many of her endeavors, I always admire her will to find something new to try.

And the kid in our class who some of us were sure would become a mass murderer is now the Fire Chief of the local fire dept.

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A kid named John. A lot of us smoked weed but John was a true champion. One thing I remember about him was him stealing his sister's pot pipe, a wooden penis-shaped pipe. He expected us to smoke out of it. We did. I mean...it's weed. His eyes were always at half-mast. His academic achievements were slim to none. Barely scraped by with D's.

Twenty years later, I inquired about him with a common friend. John became an electrician in another state. He paid careful attention to the industry and felt that the commercial electrical supply firms were less than optimal. So he started one out of his garage. Now he owns a whole string of them, with millions in profit every year.

From penis pipe to millionaire. It can happen!

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Me. I was the kid who started smoking weed and cigs at 12. Moved to ecstasy at 14, Molly at 16, cocaine and oxys at 17 and by 19 was a full on addict to heroin and crack. At 22 I broke down and in a sobbing mess on my hands and knees cried out to God to help me and made the decision to turn my life around. It's now 4 years later, im married, raising her 3 children, one of ours, one on the way. I'm the Operations Director of the company I work for. Have an amazing relationship with my family that I never really knew. Usher and assistant to the youth pastor at my church. I spend my days leading the employees I have, the youth at church, and my children to be all they can, and I never pass an opportunity to help someone that struggles with addiction or self worth. I would have never expected to be here, and God may not be your thing, but my life is a million times better than I expected it to be because of the change of course I took.

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Not HS, but my best friend’s freshman roommate was a weird guy. Brilliant. Literally 1600 SAT scores, full ride, brilliant, but never really showered. He was dating the sweetest, kindest girl, who dumped him after two months of trying to get him to take better care of himself and actually go out and do anything. We’d try to get him to come out of his shell because he was pretty funny and we liked the guy.

After not hearing from him for 15 years, we looked him up. Apparently he cofounded Revolve clothing, is a multi millionaire, and parties in Ibiza and s**t. I’m genuinely happy for the guy, but I never, ever, expected him to hit it big in fashion.

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Coke and weed addict, best friend in 9th grade. Now in late tenth and she’s in military school across the country, sober since last Christmas, I’m so damn proud of her.

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Ditzy air-headed cheerleader is now a *very* high power attorney.

Ms. Social Butterfly Party Girl is an Anglican priest.

Mr. Most Likely to Succeed dropped out of college and is a construction worker.

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There were two that really stand out. One of them was a girl who got in a fair amount of trouble. She skipped school, had a bad attitude and was more interested in hanging out with friends than learning. She ended up becoming a lawyer and eventually became the assistant DA of a city with about 3 million people.

The other was a nice guy, got along with most everyone, I even considered him a friend and hung out with him on occasion. He came from a great family and while he didn't get the best grades, he was good at things like fixing cars so I assumed he would end up going into that field. Instead, he started a career in drinking. By the time he was 30 he had been in jail several times, in a rehab a couple of times, had been arrested numerous times, had two restraining orders on him from former girlfriends, and had burned so many bridges with his family they had given up on him. Now in his mid 40's, he still lives in that same town. He looks like he is in his 60's, is on disability, and likely doesn't have much of a future as he continues to drink himself away.

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Dude was the typical c*cky douche to most people but we got along well enough. We're 25 now, and he moved to Vegas went bald, put on about a hundred pounds and is dating a sixty year old stripper.

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A friend of mine was really into herself and dated a lot of rich guys. She vowed not to get married or have children that she had goals to become a business professional woman. She did some modeling etc. Fast forward 10 years. She gained 120 pounds and her husband left her for another woman and she is raising a disabled child that consumes all her time where she cannot work. I have to say that she is an excellent mother. She basically turned into everything she said that she would not be.

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I had a friend in high school (still good friends now) who used to get in trouble with police, had a probation officer for a while before high school, and just had a general problem with authority. She's in law enforcement now.

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A lot of them! I don't know if there was something in the water in our town.

A lovely girl in my class had severe anorexia, to the extent she had to repeat the year. She was strikingly pretty, with the face of an angel. Always wondered if she felt self-conscious and grew obsessed about her looks because it was what people valued - nobody made the same fuss about her good grades or niceness. She is now morbidly obese, couch surfing and pretty much always wears the same big brown coat and tracksuit pants. Was shocked to see her go from one extreme to the other. Still really nice, hope it works out for her.

Another high achiever in our class is now a travelling musician and nudist. She dropped out of engineering and just travels from festival to festival as a concert goer, dressed as a barefoot rainbow fairy. Self-funds by offering tarot readings, spells, palmistry. Lived by the creek for awhile. Has a Pomeranian.

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I had a wickedly smart and talented high school friend end up in p**n as a last resort (long story as to why it was a last resort- in a nutshell, at the time she saw it as her only way out of a bad situation that had spiraled out of control quickly).
She finally managed to get out of p**n and studied to become a teacher, winning many awards throughout her years-long career.

One summer, an a*****e parent came across her porn and decided it would be a good idea to send her videos to the local media and expose her past. Being a small-ish town, word traveled fast (I believe it even made national news at one point), and the more conservative people in the community called for her to be fired. The school district cowed to the pressure and let her go. Even though many other people did end up vocally supporting her after the news of her firing, she decided she’d had enough. She made the decision to leave the community and start over by focusing on her art and political causes that she was passionate about.

Last I’d heard, she was doing well selling her art and teaching at a local university (not sure if she disclosed her past to the university), and is a very active member within the local chapter of her political party. Never would’ve expected this road for her, but I’m glad she’s doing well.

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The flamboyant gay kid joined the Israeli Army and married a woman. Really not sure how that happened.

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Not a friend, but I went to middle and high school with a girl who went into acting.


Became a Power Ranger.

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He wasn't a friend, but I still value his story. He wasn't a very good student, quite a delinquent, and was known to have the most demerits. I didn't really know him too well, but he knew of me because I did really well in HS and word of me got around. One day during senior year, he saw me in the bathroom and started talking to me. He told me that he looked up to me, that I inspired him, and that he was going to turn his life around. He said he knew he screwed up here and there and that he didn't take things seriously. But he told me to watch him change himself, watch him become better, watch him succeed. I told him to go for it and never stop believing in himself. Never spoke to him again.

We were connected on facebook so I saw his life updates on my newsfeed. He really did change his life in college. He got a 4.0 GPA, he stopped messing around and wasting his time... actually he became a studious nerd. He was succeeding. He did it. He proved he can turn things around. He proved that he would take things seriously. He was clearly very ambitious and taking every opportunity he could to advance in life. I never reached out and told him, but I was so damn proud of him. I was doing pretty poorly in my life at the time, and he became a source of inspiration for me. He inspired me, and I looked up to him then. I think he got off social media because I never saw any more news from him, but wherever he is and whatever he is doing, I wish him the best. I hope he accomplishes everything he sets out to do. If I somehow magically ever see him again, I'll be sure to tell him this.

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The happy surprise?

One of the girls I went to school with kind of came from the wrong side of the tracks. Nice kid, but her family was known to be pretty trashy, and she dropped out of community college to be a stripper. A few years later, she got her s**t together, and now she's a corporate lawyer.

The not-so-happy surprise?

Dude was brilliant. He came from a wealthy family, he was good at sports, he was a hilarious person to be around. Even at the time, it was no secret that he had his demons, but he was just so damn smart that it seemed like if he could grow out of his adolescent angst, everything would be fine. (Again, wealthy family. Bright. Good looking. Bro didn't exactly have to hit a home run to do okay in life.)

I believe he's working part-time at the grocery store now, but he may have gotten fired again. Or he might be back on disability. Or maybe he's working at Pizza Hut...it's always hard to keep it straight, because he doesn't tend to hold down any particular job for long.

Honestly, if he weren't such a nice person, there might be a hint of schadenfreude there, but as it is, it's just tragic. He really was brilliant, and he really was a wonderful human being, but there weren't enough advantages in the world to save him from himself.

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One of the long- haired dirty metal guys became the kind of adult who goes to Disney without children. Had a wedding at Disney with mouse ears and everything, and now they have a little girl.

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Wan’t really a high school friend, but more like a babysitter’s high school friend. When I was in primary school, my babysitter and her cousin Madeline would hang out together while taking care of me. Madeline was everything you could have wanted out of a high schooler. She was pretty, athletic, and most of all, she was extremely intelligent. Got all sorts of awards and praises in her 8th grade graduation.

Once high school came around the corner, we had the biggest hope for her. She planned on doing this program that would allow you to graduate your sophomore year. It was incredibly difficult, and you’d have to take junior and senior classes early on. We all believed in her whole-heartedly, and in short, she failed it miserably. Instead of studying, she slept around and smoked weed, did drugs and failed the test to graduate early. She got pregnant junior year by a married man. Ended up miscarrying, fell into alcohol, and is currently unemployed living under her mother’s care.

All of this happened before I could even start high school. (A year ago.)

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A smart, not particularly pretty (at the time), tomboy best known for her active participation on the school basketball team went on to become Miss Country. She was in Miss World a few years ago too. She now runs a makeup business and continues to do modeling. It's said that one of the reasons she did well in the Miss Country pageant was she was much smarter than the other contestants, so she outshone them particularly in the talent and Q&A competitions.

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Not really a friend as I didn't run with their crowd, but like at every school there was the really popular girl. Pretty, cheerleader, everybody liked her, wealthy parents, etc... I'm sure you knew someone like that yourself.

Just maybe two or three weeks ago she got arrested and charged with several felonies for possession of meth, prescription pain killers, and a large amount of weed.

I moved away from that town years ago and haven't really kept in touch with a lot of the people from there. However a buddy of mine sent me a picture of the report in the newspaper and was like "remember her?" Definitely didn't expect it, that's for sure.

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ladies man guy with a big ego. He was fun for about 5 hours before you needed a break from him. anyway, he slept with like a good 1/3 of the cheerleaders, had a 4 way with some girls on the vollyball team, senior year he screwed a bunch of the drama girls, he loved hanging out with the drama girls. slept with them all of the time and they became his flavor of choice. turns out he cared less for the cheerleaders and drama girls and more about cheerleading and drama.

Guy's in a gay p**no now and does some off-Broadway shows.

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She was voted most likely to succeed in our year, had plans on being a doctor, really smart. Ended up staying in state for college (pretty rural, limits options), we lost touch, she got married, she's a stay at home mom and a trophy wife, basically, traveling the world on her (doctor) husband's dime.

Not a bad life, certainly, but not expected.

Edit: I didn't mean to imply she's a golddigger or anything critical like that. She was the leader of clubs and teams during high school, and very pretty, and competitive with grades, so it's just interesting to me that so far she has been less ambitious career-wise. (She's definitely still very happy.)

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Former classmate from highschool was a skrewup, he skipped class to smoke behind the school, sometimes came drunk to school, and was into rap and really talented on the mixer, even had amateur studio kit. He got his s**t together and is now on his last year doing an M.D. I'm happy for him

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Had a friend who lived near me. Both of us went to parochial schools (which does not make a person good by itself, trust me) and had solid home lives. His was a little more tense but nothing abnormal. He was really close to his dad and brother and we were really close friends. All through middle school and the first half of high school he was like a brother to us in our group of friends. Then he started to make a dumb decision here and there but nothing too huge. Once we graduated s**t Hit. The. Fan. He got really into drugs. Started with pot first then shrooms, cocaine, lsd, all combined with large amounts of hard liquor. He got in trouble with the law and dropped out of college. Thing is he was very bright and a talented individual with an absolute heart of gold but there were issues he had been dealing with that he kept hidden underneath a happy facade. Any one of us would have dropped everything to make sure he was ok but none of us knew how much help he needed.

I've always been a great judge of character and can just sense what people are thinking and feeling from just talking with them. This guys though taught me just how masterfully people can hide beneath a smile and a laugh; taught me to be aware of the small signs. The only benefit to this lesson is that I now know what to look for with students who may need help. People can be so skilled at concealment of their feelings and needs, you have to look for the small things and reach out. Maybe you won't fix it but it will help for them to know you care and are there for them.

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Friend I'd know since freshmen year (9th grade) of HS. Home life wasn't stellar. Abusive stepparent, control freak mom, etc. Joined the marines to escape. Met someone, got married, had like 4 kids and was expelled from service for medical reasons. Got divorced, dad got full custody, so she moved back home and bounced around in a travel trailer with a younger boyfriend, who stole his boss's business credit card before they bounced to lord knows where. Last time she surfaced, it was on Facebook and she was selling their wedding rings he'd purchased using the stolen credit card.

It's a real shame how things went. She'd done well in the marines and even in the early years of her marriage. Not sure what the tipping point was. She was furious about losing custody but she wanted to uproot 4 kids from their home, school, friends and dad's side of family to bounce around in a 13 ft travel trailer living off her $650 in disability. She absolutely refused to acknowledge how horrible that would have been for them.

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Guess my high school best friend... he was tied for top average grade percentage across our high performing high school. Absolute scholastic unit... he's now a ultimate frisbee playing, fun cycling, stay at home dad with a double degree and has a highly successful business minded wife. He really was the smartest one of us.

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He was just this quiet kid that had a few friends. Didn't do clubs or sports or anything like that that I was aware of, and I worked at the school TV station so we had a hand in ALL the teams & clubs.

Almost forty years later (Class of '84,) he's the lead guitarist in a fairly successful heavy metal band out of Phoenix.

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In high school he was quiet and nerdy. After high school he became outgoing, flamboyantly gay, and lived in the gym. Nobody saw it coming but my guess is he finally decided to stop hiding who he was and really embraced it. No idea what he’s up to now but I hope he’s still doing his thing.

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My best friend from middle school onward, not the “hang out every day” type but more the “always there when you need him” type. We’ve been out of high school 7 years now and we’re still in contact. I’m set to be his best man later this year.
This guy was the smart, kinda dweeby type (not an insult in the slightest, I was the exact same way, maybe not as smart, but you get the point). He kept to himself unless you were in his circle, kept quiet even if you were and ALWAYS avoided any kind of confrontation. He’d go out of his way to not talk to someone if it meant he didn’t have to answer questions.
Imagine my shock when, 2 years after graduation, I catch up with him and find out he’s in the Secret Service. Not presidential, but still up there. He’s done good for himself, and I’m proud.

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A girl in my year who smoked a lot of pot, dated her dealer, and then from the same hood dated another dealer after that. She and "dealer bf #2" are now married and are both successful marriage and commerce lawyers, with fancy downtown condo and little dog to boot.

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Allan...he was smart and funny, easygoing and everyone's friend. I always had a little bit of a crush on him and after high school we ended up hooking up and partying a few times. Last time I talked to him he was struggling with heroin and the last I heard of him he was homeless. He deserved more and I wish I could have helped

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Very plain Jane kinda girl, not promiscuous or especially outgoing or anything. After high school she started as an exotic dancer and has now gone on to make a pretty big name for herself in p**n under the name Nikki Benz.

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Teachers daughter used to hang out with a bunch of gang members. Super smart and Attractive and developed early. She was really friendly and I also remember her showing me where some guy signed her breasts in 8th grade.

Later in my early 30s, I remember telling a friend that I was curious what happened to her but expected she had probably a number of children from different fathers (sh**ty of me I realize). Then he was like, No. She went to school for journalism and is the nightly anchor on the local news.

I still feel bad about that. And also I’m happy for her.

Another person was the vice president of the Christian club and was in a number of classes. She had a bit of a crush on me but we never hung out. Then I added her on Facebook and shortly after see that she was suing the state to allow her to get married to her partner and was at the Supreme Court when the decision was announced.

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I had a friend who like apprenticed or whatever at like NASA. She graduated earlier than the rest of us, and went off to college like in North Carolina. Around my senior year of high school, I saw she came back after barely a year had passed. I think she failed out of college, and is into weed hardcore. Doesn’t have a job and still hangs with high schoolers. I feel horrible about her life now, don’t do drugs kids, it’s really not worth it :/

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Stoner black dude, was a huge clown, he was actually just annoying acquaintance of mine back in high school... we become best, and he ends up being a super hardworker in college, and goes on to get a PhD in math. It was pretty amazing to witness.

Another dude, was this incredible uptight, annoying, nerdy, know-it-all chubby Indian kid. Hated my guts cuz I beat him at this one class, and often would get better grades in tests than him. Apparently he's now a nurse and super gay. Still an a*****e from what I hear.

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Nice kid in my high school was very quiet, whose father was theology professor at the local University. He became the outgoing openly gay Mayor of my hometown in his twenties and is now running for President.

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Had a friend that was the weirdest guy I’d met. He’d often yell random stuff for no reason, do every kind of accent, and was just generally awkward around people. Saw him a few years after and he was dressed to the nines, very clean cut, and socially well adjusted. Complete 180 from high school. Made me rethink all my life’s choices up until that point, since I was not doing so hot in life.

Edit: I’m loving all the people wondering if I’m talking about them, or someone they know.

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A friend of mine is a talented artist with a deep passion for video game design. He worked on projects for indie devs all through high school, and I thought it was certain he would quickly become an artist for some dev studio soon after.

He now works as a furniture salesman.

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A well-off, innocent-looking white kid from my high school ended up covered in face tattoos and brandishing guns on the internet. Turns out, he joined a Mexican gang on the outskirts of our town. He ended up getting shot to death in a confrontation with another gang.

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Douchebag weightlifting party boy started a tech company that sold for $225mil a few weeks ago.

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Fun, sweet, alternative minded friend marries after getting her degree, becomes a stay-at-home mom of 4, settles for a time in the town I moved to. Excludes me and my same-aged child from playgroup because the circle she is in is more well-to-do than I am. Kids now grown, she now lives out of state, but has become so snobby and right wing she wont speak to our old group of liberal- minded friends from high school. I miss my old friend, hate who she became.

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I knew a guy named Neil, her name is now Sarah.

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Cheerleader who took a heck of a turn.

She was an impressive drinker in high school. She kept it up through college. Got a job, didn't love it.

She joined AA. Met a guy. Older, had nice finances. Estranged from his ex-wife, kids, no other family. They got married. A few months later, they're both drinking again. Within two years, he's dead. He left her everything. She is "devastated."

She goes back to AA. Met another guy. Apparently older men who are estranged from their families are SUPER easy to find in AA. You got it: they're drinking, next thing you know, he's dead. Left her everything.

Now she's gone back to AA again. She has met the most wonderful man. It's a shame his kids won't speak to him and won't come to the wedding. It's next month.

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there was this guy who bullied me and destroyed my self esteem on a regular basis. He became a really successful vegan chef, has his own restaurant, cook books, has been on talk shows to cook/promote his stuff.

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One of my best friends back in high school. He was brought up Catholic and had very strict parents and was so innocent in high school. Never went out with us or drank or smoked or did anything! Then college happened and he's hooking up with a bunch of girls, partying most weekends (him throwing his own parties at his house), and smokes. COMPLETE 180!

I met up with him last month (been 4 years since I'd seen him) and he's still the same guy just way more adventurous I guess. He's still awesome to hang with and has a good head on his shoulders. Love that guy.

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Close friend of mine in 9th grade was kind of prude, didn’t really know anything beyond basic sex ed. I thought it was a little odd but also thought she’d just learn soon anyway.

Last I heard she was in a sub/dom relationship and was living in a house with basically a sex dungeon, if I remember correctly. I think I heard she broke up with the guy but not sure. Hard to know hearing it all second-hand.

Nothing wrong with that lifestyle if you’re into it, but it was a surprising transformation.

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Valedictorian, great french horn player, over 20 years ago, served me at subway the other day

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Not my friend, but I remember seeing his picture in the yearbook (one year ahead of mine) and wondering if he and the guy next to him were related, since they had the same last name.

Apparently a pretty smart kid, and since my school was in an upper middle class neighborhood, evidently from a reasonably successful family.

He was working on his PhD when he completely snapped and shot up a theater in Aurora, Colorado.

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I had a friend in high school who was high achieving academically. He was in the top classes, very nervous and well behaved in the classroom. Generally he was mostly thought of as quiet and the guy very few people paid any attention to.

He's serving eight years in prison for possession of drugs and child p**nography.

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Normal kid, AV geek, church organist, eventually got involved in fraud, kidnapped a kid, punished the kid to death. Didn't expect that.

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My friend was preppy and kind of argumentative. I always thought he’d be a lawyer or hot shot CEO, but he’s a biker straight out of SOA casting except he’s the real deal.

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A kid I really respected in Highschool. He was smart, and well adjusted. I remember the first time I met him he was playing Atticus Finch in our production of To Kill a Mockingbird.

He later became a White Supremacists.

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Surprising one is the guy who was pretty much morbidly obese from y7->y13 going off to join the army, he used to constantly try and escape from exercise at school, then passed basic training.

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There was a guy, more of an acquaintance, really, who was hella smart. And quite good looking. Popular. A real a*****e, but intelligent.

Got a full ride to an out of state school. It was a big enough deal that it was announced at graduation.

A few years ago I thought of him and looked him up. He looked like a total scrub. He used to have perfectly coiffed curly hair, dressed in button downs, and was generally a clean cut guy. But now, he's greasy. Looks like a guy who lives in the basement having band practice and getting high every weekend and works at a Lil Ceasar's all week. Was not attending college.

It kinda shook me. Makes me wonder if he suffered some trauma. There was never an indication he wasn't happy as he was.

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Average guy at school. Dead through alcoholism by his mid 20s. It was apparently asphyxiation that got him.

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Almost every anarchist I knew ended up in the military

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