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I don’t think it’s completely made up. I think it’s based on someone, an actual set of twins who joined sororities at 2 different universities, but the OP isn’t one of the twins. She’s one of the other characters- probably not Callie, but maybe “Lyndsay”? The writer was friends with a girl who had a twin at another school, and always thought it would have been more fun to tell her friend’s story than her own. As I recall (and I’m not going to re-read the whole thing), Lyndsay was having a successful recruitment, but without all the twists and turns, and definitely no “thing” to make her recruitment story as exciting and dramatic as her BFF. So she pretended she was the one who had a twin sister and some major mysterious issue that she “couldn’t speak of, and yet couldn't stop talking about” (to paraphrase a very apt phrase from a Modern Family episode).
Then of course she added in additional details that may or may not be factual (the mother being a Miss America runner-up, overly detailed outfit descriptions, *pink. sequined.tights*) to make it sound like it was really her writing it, but ironically, ended up just making the story seem less and less plausible. Maybe these details are true, maybe they are false (completely products of the writer’s imagination), or maybe they are based on real information but changed slightly so that the story would not be too recognizable in the event someone who knows the real twin sisters were to find it (or the twins themselves). Maybe she tweaked the number of chapters at her school and/or the sister’s school. Maybe the architectural descriptions of the chapter houses were mixed up a little as to sound familiar, but not instantly placeable.
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