Saloma, as I read through your blog and the older posts I am so impressed with the quality of your writing. You could turn this into a book! There are so many things your write about that resonate with me, and I would love to talk with you about this sometime…have you ever considered an open letter to your followers […]
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Upon my return to the Amish community after my initial leaving, I longed for more options for a career than what was available to me. At the time, there were two options — that of teaching school or cleaning houses for a living. While I was in Vermont the first time, I had become a waitress. I liked being a
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I know you’re mostly outside the culture now, but my question is in what ways do you think the Amish world has changed? Are there any traditions that have been lost or are disappearing? Ally, your question has really made me think about how little I know about this issue, given that I’ve been out of the community for nearly
I have been working on a website lately. It is still a work in progress, but I’ve launched it. You can goggle my name (Saloma Furlong), and it should be one of the first things to come up, or else you can visit it directly: https://salomafurlong.com/Welcome.html. I would welcome any suggestions or comments, especially if the pages don’t display properly.
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The idea that parents encourage the youth to sample the world with the hope that this inoculates them against the world is very much a myth. ~ Anonymous Amishman In my quest for accurate information about “rum springa” in the Amish culture, I found two things that give me hope that the current view of it being perpetuated by the
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What made you decide to leave the Amish faith? Until one of my readers asked me this question, I didn’t realize that I hadn’t addressed my reasons, except in passing. Though it takes a whole book to really convey the nuances of what went into my decision, I will attempt to give at least a short answer to this question.
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