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Why spend so much energy about people faking their affiliation - be more concerned about people who turn their backs on a lifelong oath they took - the people who claim to have "worked hard" for letters are the ones that cherish the letters a little bit too much and ignore the meaning behind the letters - as far as I am concerned, they are FAKE to the core!! Moreover, there are some people who claim to want to "protect their letters" from perps, but will buy anything under the sun with the letters on them - do I really need Delta house slippers, thongs, sneakers??? I think not!

You also can't forget people who "think" they are official and really aren't because they went through an illegitimate process. I've seen it happen on more than one ocassion that a family member calls the chapter when someone dies and we are obligated to do the ceremony for anyone whether they are in our chapter or not, but when we check with headquarters we find out they are not really Deltas! I was on the phone with a young woman for over an hour because she couldn't understand that her mother wasn't really a Delta, she had spent her whole life (over 30 years) believing her mother was a Delta, believing she was a legacy, the whole nine and her mother was never official - scrapbook, a year-long process, sweater, t-shirt and all kinds of stuff, and basically a perpetual pyramid, if even that!