Remembering the Time When I Was Discriminated

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12th March 2020, I was standing on a pavement connecting the community library to an adjacent building, which I believe, was an office of an international NGO. I was in deep thought, considering how life was unfolding in the world. Never in my life had I imagined that the world would be overcome but such fear. Valuable lessons in life come at a strange time. More was to unfold in the next hours. While I was standing there considering how life would develop in the coming days, I never knew that I had not seen it all. That evening, I had planned to visit Tom, a friend we met in high school. After graduating, Tom relocated to Texas, and it was seven years now since we last met. We bumped into each other when I was in town, and we resolved to meet. Tom came back to New York to start his new job. He was hired as a music producer for a local music label.
When I arrived at Tom's place, I met Damaris, his girlfriend. I have raised up a staunch Christian, and I firmly believed that people should never have sexual relations before getting married. This was an issue I believed and obeyed. I knew that there was a right time for everything, and sex was only suited for marriage. We started to talk about many issues, how life has been since we last met, and my future plans. In the middle of our conversation, the issue of having sexual partners before marriage arose. I am a staunch C...