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Why I Left the Amish A Memoir

Saloma Miller Furlong

There are two ways to leave the Amish―one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong’s father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a floo...

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as the title of Saloma Miller-Furlong's memoir about her experience leaving the Amish community.

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My name is Saloma Miller-Furlong. I am the author of a new memoir called Why I Left the Amish.

— Episode: The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )

Episode: The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )

It was mentioned as the title of Saloma Miller-Furlong's memoir about her experience leaving the Amish community.

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My name is Saloma Miller-Furlong. I am the author of a new memoir called Why I Left the Amish.

The Rubin Report

The book was promoted on a speaking tour, and the author felt that his message resonated strongly with audiences who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic party. The tour sold out across multiple cities.

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If I've learned anything over the last, say, month and a half since this book came out and I've been on tour, every day that I'm not in here, I miss it.

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Episode: Elon Musk's Most Recent Tweets Just Launched a War...

The book was promoted on a speaking tour, and the author felt that his message resonated strongly with audiences who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic party. The tour sold out across multiple cities.

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If I've learned anything over the last, say, month and a half since this book came out and I've been on tour, every day that I'm not in here, I miss it.

many of you would say to me when I would do the meet and greet after the shows, people would be saying, Dave, I'm happy to see you here, but I miss you on the show.

And they would usually agree. But I really missed being here. And obviously the world did not get any more sane since I was gone, although there are some signs of sanity and I think some good things are happening.

It's starting to turn. The post-woke world is here. People are starting to feel juiced up. There's a feeling like we can win.

Episode: Joe Rogan Fights Back in Response to Neil Young Sp...

Dave Rubin mentioned having written a book defending classical liberalism. It was referenced in the context of his shift in political views and his expertise on leaving the left.

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um but there's a couple interesting things here first off the fact that Dana Perino on Fox News is saying you know Bill Maher should run for president shows you that conservatives actually like disagreement with people in a sane way like

Episode: Voting for Disaster. Dave Rubin Discusses Californ...

Dave Rubin mentioned that his friend's 80-year-old mother shared his PragerU video, "Why I Left the Left," on Facebook, leading to an attack from her grandchildren.

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I'm pretty sure she posted my why I left the left Prager you video on Facebook and she had her grandchildren attacking her on Facebook.

Episode: What I Lost by Leaving the Left & Why So Few Stand...

Referred to as the original "Why I Left the Left" book, it was mentioned in the context of Horowitz's earlier work and his journey leaving leftist ideologies.

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But you sort of 30 years before me made that move. I suspect you feel pretty good about it after coming from a family that was communist and socialist and being a lefty. And then finally Reagan broke you. And here you are.

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