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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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I'm 17 years old and I've been exploring my rumspringa for the last year and a half.
His home is party central for all the kids going through rumspringa.
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.
Most of the teenagers enter the church after their rumspringa.
Only one of them, my oldest brother, Michael, chose not to return to the church after his rumspringa.
As the rumspringa goes on, the cast gradually takes up residence in a newly blended world.

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