00:00 One of the biggest culture shocks I experienced after I left, going to Walmart.
00:05 Because I grew up Amish in a small town, there were no big stores. The only stores I'd ever
00:15 gone to were the two grocery stores in town, the dollar store, the bulk food store, the Ace
00:22 Hardware, and the second-hand store. And after I left, the people that took me in, the lady,
00:30 said she was going to take me shopping and she took me to Walmart. I couldn't believe it. It blew my mind.
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01:13 She was so excited to take me there, but I just kind of froze because I had never seen anything like it.
01:19 And she's like, "Go ahead, start picking out clothes. What do you like?" And I was literally frozen and I just
01:26 stood there and stared. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was like, "I don't know what I like or
01:32 what style or what to do." She's like, "You can touch the clothes." I was scared to touch the clothes
01:38 because I was never around anything like that. So that was a really, really big culture shock. And
01:44 still to this day, I don't like to go shopping.
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02:02 I'm going to share some of the things that meant so much to me when I was a little Amish girl
02:09 and that I saved and my parents actually saved and held on to them. I got two little lamps.
02:15 I know, it's interesting to me too now. It meant so much to me when I was a little Amish girl.
02:23 These are like little crayons and chiclets, little soap bags. I know, weird, right?
02:31 These little soda bottles, hearts, flags.
02:34 And then also stuff like these, like beads. I know I don't have any, like little necklace things to
02:44 make necklaces. But all these things meant so much to me. I'm grateful that my parents
02:50 kept all these things and they allowed me to have them.
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