How would you react if you saw a video online of someone talking about a conversation they

overheard of two people trying to uninvite their friend with your name to their birthday

party?

Well, that's exactly what happened to Marisa Mayes, and the way she responded was probably

a little different than most of us would respond.

Instead of getting angrier lashing out, she went online and started her own community

of people who feel brushed aside or just lonely.

And they came together, two hundred of them, to meet in real life, to foster new friendships.

This is a bit of optimism.

Marisa, for those who don't know your story, can you please tell us because it's kind

of insane and wonderful all at the same time?

It is kind of an insane thing that happened in my life, I guess, in a lot of people's

lives.

But basically a guy named Drew who's walking in Madison Square Park and he overheard

two girls talking poorly about their friend Marisa saying how they wanted to plan a party

on a weekend that I would be out of town so they wouldn't have to invite me in the first

place because they already knew I was going to be out of town.

And he overheard it and I didn't know Drew, by the way, did not know who he was, never

met him before.

We had no mutual friends.

And he posted a TikTok video, he was saying, you know, if your name is Marisa and you live

in New York City and these are your friends, then I hope you find some new friends.

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