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What is a rumspringa?

What is a rumspringa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) A period of adolescence for some members of the Amish that begins around the age of 14–16 and ends when a youth chooses baptism within the Amish church or instead leaves the community.
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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.
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.
Amish communities routinely practice the institution of rumspringa.
I'm 17 years old and I've been exploring my rumspringa for the last year and a half.
As the rumspringa goes on, the cast gradually takes up residence in a newly blended world.
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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