Stacey D. Grandchamp was the all-American popular girl. The exact kind of archetype that you're

thinking in the early 2000s. She was smart. She got along with everybody. She was popular. She was

really good in school. She actually like put effort into all of her studies. She was very well-rounded

and a lot of students felt like there was nothing that Stacy couldn't

do.

But Stacy had some soul to her because she grew up with a single-parent mom.

She didn't come from this perfect family where she had, you know, an older brother that was

two years older than her and both of her parents had been together for 30 years.

No, back home, it was just she and her mom.

And she was really kind of navigating the world trying to understand men

because she didn't have much of a father figure in her life.

And her mom was rocking it.

She was doing her best, you know?

And if you grew up in a single parent home with a mom, you know, it can be complicated because mom has to

put on this face of almost masculinity. She's got to be strong to keep the household together, right?

While also being a woman that's trying to feel her emotions. So it's very interesting to me that

Stacey was this all-American, the popular girl that we imagine in movies, but she had a

home life that was similar to a lot of us. Somebody like Stacy is, of course, going to attract

some other kind of archetype that we all know from high school. The insecure, the jealous, the kind of domineering,

the mean girl, the bully. And that was Holly Boysford. What's interesting about Holly is

she also came from a home that had family struggles, but Holly chose a different path. She

chose to put other people down to assert her power. For Holly, people

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