Monroe on the Run, part I

Seventeen-year-old Monroe left his Amish settlement late Thursday evening.

Monroe as Swartzentruber AmishWe received a call from his cousin, "Two of my cousins just left. Can you give them a place to stay for just one night?"

My husband and I drove to the meeting place and brought Monroe and his sister to our home. They immediately needed English clothing, toiletries, shoes, showers, and Monroe wanted to cut his required Amish haircut. Equally necessary was getting each their birth c...