Well I'll just bring you right down to Earth then and mention that this was after having a brain tumor at age 10. Her friends were there with chirpy, "I hope you feel better" crap but none of them actually showed up for anything - pretty much the polar opposite of the inspring stories where all the kids in the class shave their heads to support the cancer kid. Didn't happen - and she had been super popular before, not the "mean girl" type at all - if anything she's the opposite of that. All I've ever been able to figure is that the kids were just freaked out or something. But yeah, the 16th birthday party was probably one of the LEAST disappointments she's lived through, all things considered. So if you're going to spend energy fearing for your kids, cancer or something similar is really the place to go.