Karyn thought it over. "It almost sounds like sour grapes from people who aren't popular."
"What? What do you mean?"
"A lot of people who aren't popular," explained Karyn, "like to think that people who are popular are really secretly miserable or unfulfilled deep inside. It's a kind of sour grapes--if you convince yourself that you don't really want something, then you don't feel so bad about not having it. I know plenty of both guys and girls who'd say that... but I know better. It's like saying that bullies don't have self-esteem, or that being immortal is really mind-numbing and nobody would ever want to live forever. It makes you feel a bit better about being bullied or about being mortal. But it isn't really true."
"But," continued Karyn, "if someone popular like you says it, that's different. I think you just don't realize what you have... for one thing, except for Jon, everyone you made the wish on was already your friend."
"I don't believe that," said Sarah.
"Should I wish you knew if they were really your friend before?"
"No, because whether they were or not, that's changed."
"Then how about..."
