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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a few cousins who were in sororities and as far as I can tell it did not benefit their lives in any way past college. It didn't get them jobs, they're not close with any of their "sisters" - none of that. So to my eye, they paid for temporary friends for four years, which seems silly since they're both outgoing and bubbly and friendly and could have made friends without that crutch. [/quote]

how close are you to your cousins?  how much do you REALLY know about who their friends are?  [/quote]

We're very close. I know their friends, they know my friends. To the point that I've hung out with their friends even when a cousin who is the connection can't make it and vice versa. Even if we've never met a specific less-close friend they know the stories about them. "Sera, the one whose mom always takes her on vacations?"  Two even taught me their super secret sorority code for something (it was like two decades ago - can't recall exactly what it was for). [/quote]

Uh huh.  Bullshit.  [/quote]

Sorry you're not close with your relatives - it can be awesome. I grew up living 15 minutes from a bunch of them. I'm 20 months younger than one and 11 months older than another. As kids we weren't really friends but we'd show up at gymnastics and a cousin would be there taking a makeup class, or I'd be about to go to a bat mitzvah and my mom would tell me we were driving my cousin because she was friends with the kid and invited too. We became closer as adults. We'd visit each other at respective colleges sometimes, we had summer cousin trips, when the first cousin got married another cousin was housesitting and we all went over the day before they got back from their honeymoon and deep-cleaned their house and bought them bagels and OJ. And on and on.[/quote]

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