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Originally posted by Ideal08
I have to say that I've gained some wonderful relationships that I would not have made had the Sorority not been our existing bond. The relationships are, in a word, "rare." I love my sorors. 
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Soror, I feel the same way. And so many others have echoed how I feel about being greek as well.
Unlike some of you, I'm a first-generation college grad. My grandparents had only a 6th grade education, and my mom and her brothers and sisters didn't have the opportunity to go to college - but they sure drilled in my head that I was going to go! Now of course, it was a while before I knew what an AKA, Delta, Zeta or Sigma Gamma Rho was, but I noticed what these organizations did around our school and community.
I have to admit, initially what I wanted out of the organization at first was superficial (recognition) but what I've gained while being a part of the Sorority is a stronger sense of Sisterhood, bonding, and being welcomed back in with open arms (I took a 9-year hiatus). And I wouldn't trade my Sorors for all the tea in China.
NP, as you said about all of us having our opinions about our organizations, it really gave me the warm fuzzies when during our biennial Boulé this summer, all the presidents of the D9 were there (except one organization, but they sent a representative) and the Sorority presidents did not call each other Sister Greek or Sister Soror as we do here, but they called each other
Soror! We all wear different colors, but we are unified under the NPHC umbrella, basically serving the same purpose, just called by different names.
(Sorry for rambling - I don't know how to keep anything short!)