UNITED STATES
New York Daily News
BY NICOLE HENSLEY
As young girls, Flor and Tamar Edwards emerged from an apocalyptic cult to find a world they didn’t understand.
Learning how to ride a bike, to use water fountains, eat pizza and go to movie theaters seems more like a episode from Netflix series “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” but it was a hard reality for the twin sisters when the religious sect formerly known as the “Children of God” disbanded in 1994.
“When we saw a drinking fountain for the first time, we all just saw and huddled around it like it was some novelty,” Flor Edwards explained to ABC Nightline.
The twin sisters can relate to Kimmy Schmidt, portrayed by Ellie Kemper for the Netflix series ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ about a group of women forced to live in an apocalyptic cult.
The twins revealed what it was like growing up in the religious movement founded around the free love spirit of the 1960s. Some ex-members have gone as far to call the sect a cult and accused its founder David Berg of sexually abusing women and children.
The group’s beliefs encouraged sexual encounters as a form of expressing their faith.
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