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Faulkner’s sorority pledge

Turns out Faulkner wrote a sorority pledge for a friend of his stepdaughter. Unfortunately, the full six paragraphs don’t seem to be available online. But we do get passages, like this one:

I am the university of friendship, the college of sisterly love, the school for the better making of women. I am the sorority.

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