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Amish youth “run around”during adolescence. A Rumspringa-age Amish youth’s buggy in Lancaster County.
Amish youth “run around”during adolescence. A Rumspringa-age Amish youth’s buggy in Lancaster County.
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Be careful to the speed limit, young man!
Will keep it under fifteen of course.