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Representing Southern debutantes at Harvard are Elly Malone, who came out in Austin, Texas, Catherine Robe from Spartanburg, S.C. and Sarah Stevenson, a grad student who came out in 1988 in Jackson, Miss.
Angst aside, it was, after all, just a party. In the words of Malone, "It's not really a big thing. It's fun, but I don't feel my status has changed because of it or anything. It's just a family/friend party."
Malone, like her co-debts in Austin, went the wedding dress route. "It was a lot of fun to get dressed up. I mean, I had to go buy a weeding dress with my mom. It was a little weird; I was thinking about when I'm actually going to...
Stevenson was presented by her father and her brother escorted her, "which is sort of how it works in the South; if you have a brother of proper social age, he presents you." Similarly family-minded, Robe had her cousin be her escort and a high school friend be her...
All the women enjoyed themselves but none of them felt the sort of mystical, "You're woman now" glow one imagines debs of earlier years experiencing. As Malone states, "I didn't think it was the be-all, end-all." Stevenson adds, "It's just a big party where you...