Memoir – Saloma Furlong

Preface of “If You Promise You Won’t Tell”

By Saloma Furlong | August 9, 2020 |

Preface of the Memoir If You Promise You Won’t Tell There are frequently irreconcilable conflicts between loyalty to our parents and being true to ourselves. —Alice Miller If You Promise You Won’t Tell replaces my first memoir, Why I Left the Amish. This revision contains mostly new material of my childhood years, although the ending…

That Elusive and Important First Line…

By Saloma Furlong | July 27, 2017 |

I don’t have time to write a long post, but I have a question for you, my dear readers. In re-writing the beginning of my memoir, I am trying to decide on a first line. Will you let me know which of the following lines you find more compelling? A light rain fell as the…