My chapter experienced disaster on a personal level when the younger sister of a beloved active became sick and died suddenly in the middle of recruitment this past year. I've posted about it on here before, but obviously it was very hard on us and the Panhellenic community as a whole, especially since she was going through recruitment as well and we all knew she was going to be our sister on Bid Day. We would get updates on how sick Virginia was in between parties, and then have to clap and cheer like nothing was going on. The PNMs were told what was going on, but that didn't make it any better on us.
The younger sister's roommate-who is one of the kindest, strongest people I know-still stuck it out through recruitment and joined ADPi. I think the way we supported Sarah Katherine, her sister who was an active, and how the Greek community supported us spoke volumes about strength we didn't know we had.
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