Anna Devereaux


All Amish teens at a certain age usually 18 years old can go and live in the outside world for two years. This gives them a choice to live with the "English" or return in two years or before the time is up. They experience all the things any young person outside their Amish Communities does. Drive cars, wear makeup, dance, and drink and wear fashionable clothes plus date whom ever they wish. It gives them a chance to choose for them selves. Once the commit to the way they want to live the rest of their life than it is final and only then. I sincerely hope this clears up the misconception you observed in this movie.

I am not Amish, however, it is a more pure and simpler life than outside in the "English" world, I would have preferred to live. They have close net families and ties to each other the outside world has long forgotten in the young people today and even in my own generation. Today not one of you could survive life without a grocery store. You have no idea how to farm or grow gardens or even cook real delicious food without any preservatives or chemicals and the same with their farm animals or even build a house or barn.

You seem to think that they leave penniless with no place to grow. That is incorrect also. These people are not poor they are farmers, carpenters, homebuilders and do work for others outside their community as well as on their own land. The women make beautiful hand made quilts, bake all sorts of bake goods and sell produce in a small building on their own land. These are very productive and hard working people who live a rich fulling clean life where tobacco, alcohol and drugs do not exist in their world.