Oh, you want some more Pref Night details? 
Jackie – The sisters are all standing in rows on each side of the walkway in front of the house and singing. Liz takes me by the hand as I walk up and escorts me in. There’s an enormous ice sculpture of the sorority’s symbol in the foyer, and it has alternating flashing lights in their colors pointed at it. The rest of the room as well as the main room are dim and lit by candles. The walls are draped with fabric in their colors. There are flowers everywhere. The place smells a little like a mortuary (heh heh.) Everything is so elegant and beautiful, just like the girls here. They’re all wearing matching dresses in the sorority’s colors. I can already tell this is going to be a different experience from the previous parties. Everything seems so serious.
The ceremony is beautiful. They sing a song about their sisterhood and I am amazed at how beautiful their voices are. I had been in chorus from grammar school through high school, so this stuff really mattered to me. A few sisters read letters they’ve written about their experiences in the sorority, and how it has helped them through good times and bad. Afterwards, we have some dessert and Liz tells me how special it is to have me there. Then she reads me a letter that tells me that she’s known me since I was a girl and hopes that she can also be by my side as I become a woman in her sisterhood. This is heady stuff and not what I expected at all!
Liz hands me a personalized box, and inside it is something that would give away this group. She has me make a wish as I toss it into a fountain. Once I’ve done that, she tells me that she hopes my wish was the same as hers was and that I’d be back to get the item tomorrow. She gives me a big hug. I start to cry as we walk out the door together. My wish at that moment was to be a Jackie, and I was hoping that’s what she was wishing for as well. I clutch the pretty box in my hand, and hate to give it to the RC to hold when it comes time to go into the next house. (Yes, girls, we were allowed to accept gifts back in the stone age!) As we walk to the next house, I am certain I will pledge Jackie and there’s really no reason to go to any other party that night.
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