De Coté 

Our church put forth a concerted effort to derail our young minds and help us to venture to put the best foot forward with a dedication ceremony to our purity, a chastity ceremony that was complete with a ring to match the occasion. I was so angry after I was raped that I threw my ring, never to be seen or heard from again. Again, without my chastity, I had deemed myself worthless to the Kingdom of YAH.