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Saloma Miller Furlong, Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds

Published: March 27, 2014, 5:15 p.m.

This week we explore what it means to be Amish from the perspective of a woman who left the Amish community as a young woman. \xa0Saloma Miller Furlong\xa0is the author of\xa0Why I Left the Amish\xa0and\xa0Bonnet Strings: \xa0An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds. \xa0 Through her personal experience of leaving the Amish we touch on the universal experience of being torn between the demands of personal authenticity and communal expectations.