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Old 07-15-2007, 12:21 AM
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Annabella, when the legacy involved is your child, you don't care if that phone call comes at 7pm, 11pm, or 3am - you want to be "there" for her. You will know this, deep down inside of you, should you ever have a daughter.

Mothers raise their daughters to love a certain GLO - their own GLO. Should their daughter be cut, for any reason, they want, they need to know. And frankly, most daughters would rather hear it from their mothers than from some relative stranger. Believe me, more than one mother has cut ties with their own sorority over the pain of watching their daughters cut from their mothers' sorority!

My mother counted on me pledging one sorority, and I pledged another (and I wasn't cut). I've been out of college more years than I care to think about, and she has only recently gotten over her grief that I didn't pledge her mother's sorority.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - we have GOT to revisit the NPC Legacy Situation before we lose more mothers and even more daughters!
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Old 07-15-2007, 01:46 PM
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - we have GOT to revisit the NPC Legacy Situation before we lose more mothers and even more daughters!
HC, what would you prefer to see done? I don't know that I know your full position on this.
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Old 07-15-2007, 02:08 PM
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Yeah,

My grandma is still not happy that I didnt join her sorority. She had her heart set on it for a long time from what I can tell. I mean, she used to look after me in the summertime while my parents were at wokr. Her sisters would and still do meet twice a week to play bridge. I grew up knowing all of them and I guess I learned a few things I shouldn't know (don't worry, I haven't passed it on). I didn't even realize those were secrets till I got to college!

My mother's sorority isn't at my school, so it wasn't an issue.

My aunt also really wanted me to join her sorority, very badly. She was even telling me the stuff that the members do to indicate a bad conversation, even worse, the "let her go sign". Man, I was having a bad day during the second to last day of recruitment and was not my usual self.

It showed and I had the most cuts that day. It was aweful and I could hear my grandmother crying in the background when I told her. My aunt took it better, but I have only ever seen her cry once. Worst of all, I felt like I had dissappointed them. It was expected of me to join a certain sorority, and I had failed them. Parents may go through a lot, but if you are a legacy you will have to go through much worse. All your known life you have had a certain thing placed before you and you have now caused people you love pain. That is what it feels like.

I will say, however, fate can be a cruel and giving mistress. I could not have asked for a group of people that I could more call sisters. There is just something that clicks and makes you realize how it just wasn't there before or with anyone else.
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