[AZ-AlphaXi]

Well... here's my story ....

My mother was an only child and there was only one girl cousin ... however the cousins weren't close because their mothers (sister-in-laws) hardly spoke ...

anyway my mother knew that her cousin had been in a sorority while in college but had no idea of which one and my mother's college didn't have sororities when she was there.

meanwhile my mother becomes an Alpha Xi alumnae Initiate in the late 60s when a chapter is installed on the campus where my father is a professor and then I become an Alpha Xi as well.

So, by now both of their mothers had passed on and the cousins - being all the family either had of their generation - were trying to get back together so my mother's cousin comes to visit us ... I come bouncing down the steps to greet her when she arrives with my Alpha Xi jersy on and she blurts out "you're an Alpha Xi ?!?! so am I !!" She was an initiate of Delta chapter ...

so the cousins turned out to be sisters and it really helped strengthen the bond for them...