Her memories of him are dotted with visions of his intense rage. No more invariable black-and-white clothing, mandatory church visits and abuse from her father, whom she described as seeming to be strapped to his rocking chair at times, communicating with someone invisible to the rest of the family. “I got my dream job as a waitress at Pizza Hut,” she said in the PBS documentary “The Amish,” from which Furlong showed an excerpt to a crowd of dozens at Eastern Mennonite University’s Martin Chapel on Thursday evening. When she got there, she felt like a new person. So, when she decided to leave her Ohio Amish community at the age of 20, that’s where she headed. Saloma Miller Furlong always liked the way Burlington, Vt., looked in her school history books.
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