The Real Life ‘Kimmy Schmidt’: Twin Sisters, Former Children of God Members, Describe Life Inside Controversial Religious Sect
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Most childhoods are filled with bike riding, eating pizza or going to the movies, but twins Flor and Tamar Edwards, both 34, have been discovering many of these things for the first time as adults.
That’s because for the first 13 years of their lives, these twins lived in what some ex-members call an apocalyptic cult.
“I didn’t know what a movie theater was,” Flor said. “We saw a drinking fountain for the first time, and we all just kind of like saw it, and we, like, huddled around it like it was some …“
“… novelty,” Tamar said, finishing her sister’s sentence.
Flor and Tamar were raised in a controversial religious sect called “The Children of God,” which formed in Huntington Beach, California, in the late 1960s out of the “free love” hippie era. The twins said the group lived as nomads and were shut out from mainstream society, believing that they were among God’s chosen people who would be saved when the apocalypse came.
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