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As has been said by several, how a chapter reacts to challenges really says a lot about them. I am proud to say of the ladies that I feed and help look after is that they have really rallied together and are putting a brave face on a stressful situation. While all repairs are scheduled to be done within hours of the first round, who knows what nasty little surprises fate may have in store. Already, everytime I have felt bold enough to say nothing else can go wrong from here on, BAM (once literally).... and we are back at square one.
Several years ago the chapter returned to school in the midst of a severe drought only to find all the grass totally dead and crisp, flowers wilted, shrubs brown, all the landscaping in a mess. A new house mother was starting and it was not the smoothest of transitions. The interior work that needed to be done was put off until the last possible minute. The morning of the first round mounds of stuff were all over the house and we feverishly stuffed every available nook and cranny with all the junk laying about. The chapter had one its best recruitments ever. I pointed out then as I have frequently since that it wasn't about brown grass, junk hidden in closets, or dead flowers.... it was about the members. That group a few years back didn't believe that until they saw it happen. I think this year's group is counting on it.
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