Portrait of a young Amish man: a world apart from "Englishness"

Jacob Stoltzfus is in his final year of formal education, and it shows.

His bright eyes and smile exude the confidence of a pupil who has mastered all that his school has to offer him, a young man who is about to put his childhood behind him and start the rest of his life.

Yet Jacob will never watch the Philadelphia Phillies, his favorite baseball team, play a game on TV. There is no TV, or radio, or electricity, in his home. And even though Jacob has boyish good looks that would make many pre-teen girls weak in the knees, he will likely never go on a date to the movies or make-out in the backseat of a car.

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