That early contact with the Amish world stayed with Cindy, and now she is a New York Times Best-Selling author of Christian fiction focusing on the Amish world. Turns out, her new best friend, Luanne, was Beachy Amish, a strict Mennonite denomination that follows many of the Amish practices, such as what most outsiders consider an old-fashioned manner of dress and forbidding television and radio. “I wondered why they were having a play about the Pilgrims on the first day of school,” she says. She kept gently correcting, and the boys wandered off.Ĭindy was pleased to meet her hero, but she was curious. “What would your mothers think to hear you talking to her like that?” Cindy recalls her asking. They had her surrounded on the first day of school, teasing her, when a small girl wearing a white bonnet, long dress and white apron stepped in. Some of the bigger boys who worked their fathers’ farms took an instant dislike of the notion, and therefore of Cindy. Cindy McBrayer, now Woodsmall, was in fourth grade when she forged a friendship that eventually changed the trajectory of her life.Ĭindy was the new kid in school, and her dad had bought what we now would call a hobby farm in the heart of Maryland’s dairy country.
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