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AL-T-H-C-H-I-O-Mega.

10-G-H-H-H-I-O-M-A-A-T-H-I-O-Mega. Ten girls stand in a line outside of a house.

They're wearing dresses, mostly florals and pastel.

Everybody wants to be a Tiredo-O-Mega.

All we can tell them is we're hot. If you saw it from the street, you'd probably assume it was sorority recruitment.

But it's not.

This is just practice for the real thing.

The event is being put on by Trisha Addix.

She's the founder of a company called It's All Greek to Me.

And her job is kind of fascinating. She's what's called a company called It's All Greek to Me. And her job is kind of fascinating.

She's what's called a sorority rush consultant,

which means she helps girls across the country get into sororities.

One of the reasons people hire her is this event,

which she calls a mock round of rush.

That mock round is very well attended.

It's very highly sought after because we are the only company that does this and we do it really well.

I live in Atlanta, but I have people flying from all over.

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