They were sorority sisters at Penn. Sixty years later, they’re roommates again.

In the fall of 1966, Susan Dannenberg and Michele Mathes moved into a small room together on the third floor of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority house at the University of Pennsylvania. It was not clear whether they would make it as roommates. Mathes was an analytical pre-law student focused on the future, while Dannenberg was a struggling art student with a penchant for bringing home small rodents as pets.

a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-5 sm:px-4 font-medium”>In the intervening decades, they married, raised children, built careers, got divorced, and lived alone. But they remained connected and always thought they might end up as housemates once more.