If you aren't her new girlfriend, then what are you getting out of defending her like this? You speak about her and her "change" as though you know her in real life, and have physically witnessed such change. I doubt this is the case, so please sit down. How do you know she has made a marked effort? How do you know she is nowhere *~NEAR~* the person she was? Because you can tell by the way she talks over the internet, and that she told you so? The way she speaks over Skype? A person can say and do anything they want online. Most people's attitudes are completely different with their online friends than how they act in their true, daily lives. Ashley (sorry but I refuse to call her Alpha, of all things) has a history of twisting things/words in her favor. Oh, but please hurry up and tell me that she IS A DIFFERENT PERSON! SHE DOESN'T DO THAT ANYMORE! YOU KNOW BECAUSE YOU TALK ON AIM, LIKE, ALL THE TIME BFFS!

And yes, what you are doing is defending. The fact that you came here to try and "inform us" is still defending, whether it is fact or not.