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We do something very similar to roxydiva. Each NM is outside of the conference room, while all the sisters are inside in a circle. Each new member is led in one at a time and given a piece of paper and a candle. The Marshall lights the candle and tells the NM "go to the middle of the room and read your paper, the first face you see will be that of your Big Sister." So the NM goes to the middle of the room and reads the paper (most family trees have a family poem that is read at every Big Lil Ceremony) which is usually only half of the poem. After she reads it, she looks up and her Big Sister walks up to her and lights her candle from the new Lil's light, and finishes the poem. After the Big is done, they blow the candle out together, the lights go on, they hug and get pictures taken. Then the little is put into the circle with the sisters, not by her Big and so on. It's my favorite ceremony :-)
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