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mine didn't. Phi Mu also doesn't have "inactive" status. When I left -- with a ton of bills I couldn't pay, and sorority at the bottom of the list -- there were a lot of hard feelings. A good sisters would find a way to pay her dues.

I did. It took two years, but I did.

Unfortunately I didn't get any of those friendships back, and as we all know, the friendships you make within your collegiate sisterhood are some of the most important you'll ever have.

Fortunately when things got so, so awful I ended up turning to things like GC and my national board and a sisterhood listserve. Those sisters didn't know me on a chapter level, so they didn't know what I didn't tell them -- that I was way behind on my dues, and had left my chapter on poor terms because of it. Getting to know those sisters let me develop sisterhood on a different level than just what I'd experienced in college.

I have an exboyfriend who still refers to them disparagingly as my "internet friends." It made me really angry for awhile, and then I was just kinda like, eh. They're my sisters anyway.

Point being: Sometimes there ISN'T a way. I needed my sorority SO BADLY then, and it offered me so much that I need to take advantage of THEN. But the money did get in the way.