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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a very good article in either the Atlantic or New Yorker recently about this, and the response of the families who did lose children to the reopening of the camp.

One of the dads made a haunting comment about how the camp is turning the deaths of these 27 young girls into part of its lore. Yes, they will be memorialized, but all within the context of how special this (cultlike) place called Camp Mystic really is.

Bottom line is that families know it's their daughters' ticket to the right sororities at the University of Texas, which is their ticket to the right marriage and social circles in adult life, etc. And nothing, not even the horrors of last summer, is going to stand in the way of that.[/quote]

The UT sorority/social circle thing is way overblown, especially now. It may have been sort of true before but it is not now. Especially not now. It is way too divisive. There have always been other camps for that and will be moreso now. At this point that is not why people are going back.

There are largely two reasons. 1) The girls want to continue their camp friendships and 2) a good portion, especially the non-legacy families, really see it now as a Christian-oriented camp. (It didn't use to be that way.)[/quote]

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