DISGUSTED I was almost 17 when I began seriously dating a boy I'd been friends with for a while. I had only dated one other person and that ended with hideous betrayal ( a situation that unfortunately repeated itself a few times in my life) . I dated this boy almost until I left to go to college and even then we still saw each other a few times until I was 19. It was felt in our redneck community that he and I were too different. Our relationship caused us a lot of hurt; most of it, in retrospect - caused by others (adults mostly) and unnecessary. My father wanted to kill a few of the adults involved in breaking us up and I know he confronted a number of them. It wasn't my best personal decision but as a young person I loved him, I learned, I grew and it was a part of my growing up as a woman. But I will never, ever understand why people hurt other - or hurt me - on purpose. Never. In this story and in far too many stories in Radical Islam - young women are betrayed by the ...