But David - her future husband - kept sending her letters, insisting their love could overcome their very different upbringings, and Furlong eventually left Ohio for good a year later. Yet her ties to her old life were still strong in some ways, and she ended up returning to Ohio. Her Amish life still tugged at her, literally: After she had gone to Burlington, Vt., a delegation of people from her Ohio community, including family members and the bishop, showed up at the YMCA she was staying at to convince her to return home.įurlong was enjoying the freedom of her new life in Burlington, where she took a job in a pizza restaurant and started dating a young toy maker named David. Now Furlong, who lives in Sunderland, has written a second memoir, “Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds,” that continues her tale, this time focusing on her struggle to find her footing in the new, modern world and the pull of the old one. The book detailed a dark, unseen side of life in the traditional religious sect: a violent, mentally ill father and a sexually abusive brother, both of whom eventually prompted her to flee to Vermont when she was 20. In 2011, Saloma Miller Furlong, who grew up in an Amish community in Ohio, published a memoir, “Why I Left the Amish,” about her childhood. BONNET STRINGS: AN AMISH WOMAN’S TIES TO TWO WORLDSīy Saloma Miller Furlong with David Furlong
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