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We're all sisters.

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We're all sisters.

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Jul 1, 2013
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We're all sisters.

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Please don’t question the morality of your future sisters, or you might be the next Carny. Hey, laugh. That was a joke—you can’t take everything so seriously.

SORORITY BY KATIE O’NEILL 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 23

Here’s the television room right by the front door. We just got a 60-inch plasma screen above the red-brick fireplace last spring and extra cottony couches with fleur-de-lis upholstery. What’s a fleur-de-lis? You don’t recognize its shape from your white binder? You should. It’s one of our symbols. Don’t worry if you don’t know these things now; you’ll be tested on it later...

So, the television room, all the sisters can sit together and watch The Exorcist or The Wedding Planner or The Crying Game—whatever we sisters want.

Some read their books, How to Be an Obedient Sister or The Feminine Mystique or The Femme Fatale, with yellow highlighters in their hands, but then I don’t see sisters read much in here. It’s an entertainment space, you know, not a library. Anyways, some c…

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