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...raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived sometimes with an aunt, sometimes with a boyfriend, and sometimes she had no place to go. "I was a good student until my grandmother passed away," says the 19-year-old redhead from the Bronx. Though she was enrolled in high school, she earned just three credits in two years: "I completely shut down. I didn't do good...
...secret reasons" that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend. As a female student from Birzeit University says, "I'd rather spend my life in an Israeli prison than trapped with a husband that I didn't love...
Stephanie J. Brinton ’10 and Lindsey M. Parker ’10 are the kind of made-for-each-other couple that inspires equal parts exasperation and admiration from their single peers. A boyfriend and girlfriend matched in height and sunny dispositions, they demonstrate a discreet, natural sort of affection in public—often trading conspiratorial smiles or finishing each other’s sentences...
...After she left her dorm, Donohue's mind was still struggling to process what she had seen. By the time she reached her boyfriend at the cafeteria, she was trembling all over. "Something's the matter in my dorm, " she told him. "I think somebody got hurt badly. " Her boyfriend, who, like Donohue, is a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, prayed with her and walked her back to the dorm, but only because Donohue, still in shock, believed she needed to get lab goggles for her 8 a.m. chemistry class...
...wasn't over. Donohue went to her boyfriend's room to type up her eyewitness account for the police. As she was walking outside, she overheard that there had been a shooting in Norris Hall. "At first, I didn't even think they were related, " she says. "I still wasn't thinking straight about it. " It wasn't until the next day that her friends mustered the courage to tell her the last unbearable piece of news: one of Donohue's closest friends, a fellow Campus Crusade for Christ member named Lauren McCain, had been shot to death in German...