| While I was in college I met a wonderful girl. We got to know each other over a period of months and decided to hang out. Pretty soon we were dating serious. One night at we were sitting in her apartment and someone knocked on the door. She quickly hid me in her closet. She said that it was one of her mom's friends stopping by to see how she was doing. A little while later I stopped by late at night and a couple of minutes later someone knocked on the door. It was her mom's friend again. She started asking me if there was people sitting outside of her apartment in a car. I had never paid attention. A couple weeks later she said that she could not see me anymore. I asked why. Finally she said that she had been put on trial by the elders in her church. People from her church had been watching her apartment to see who was coming and going. They testified against her in the trial. We decided to continue our relation ship. She was put on trial again and was kicked out of her church. She could not contact any Jehovah's witness or even talk to one on the street. She was devistated. These were her only friends. This was even more devistating because she had been instructed not to have any friends outside the church. I did not leave her side once. At one point she said that she was such a horrible person that she wanted to die. We worked through the time. We decided to run off and get married. |