| I had started my rumspringa with gladness in my heart for the new experience and for the freedom I would have. |
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| The problem is, I can't tell what's okay as part of rumspringa and what is illegal in the outside world. |
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| Only one of them, my oldest brother, Michael, chose not to return to the church after his rumspringa. |
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| I'm 17 years old and I've been exploring my rumspringa for the last year and a half. |
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| I know what that means because my brother wrote me a letter when I started my rumspringa and it was filled with words I should know. |
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| But he does provide a place for rumspringa to happen and all the rumspringa kids love him for it. |
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| They ask if I've been drinking and I say yes because it's well known in the township that during rumspringa you can drink. |
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| As the rumspringa goes on, the cast gradually takes up residence in a newly blended world. |
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| This is the story of my rumspringa and no one can tell it for me. |
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| Amish communities routinely practice the institution of rumspringa. |
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| Most of the teenagers enter the church after their rumspringa. |
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| His home is party central for all the kids going through rumspringa. |
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| His rumspringa was like seven years ago and he never came back! |
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| The show proposes to follow the Amish youths as they enter rumspringa, a rite of passage that occurs when Amish teenagers turn 16 and are allowed to leave their families. |
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| It is called rumspringa and I had been in mine for three months. |
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| And then I started to think about how the life of the artist is a sort of permanent rumspringa, how artists are allowed by society to be the ones who get to act crazy and drunk for everyone else. |
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| Rumspringa ends once an individual chooses whether to be baptized and commit themselves wholeheartedly to the religious and behavioral aspects of the Amish lifestyle. |
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