By age twelve, Flor had lived in 24 different locations across three continents with her family and 11 siblings as part of the apocalyptic cult…The Children of God. They were always on the move to escape the Antichrist and in preparation for the Apocalypse that was supposed to come in 1993…or at least that’s what their founder, David Berg had them believing.
Growing up, Flor was not allowed to read, write, or have a traditional education. Unable to communicate with anyone outside the group, she spent most of her days in compounds in Southeast Asia caring for younger children in the group, tending to chores, and memorizing scripture. After Father David, the cult’s leader, died in 1994, many of his 12,000 followers were abandoned in a world for which they were unprepared and struggled to adjust to life outside the group. Following Father David’s instructions to move back to the west right before his death, Flor and her family moved to California after a long, cold winter in Chicago where they had spent two years. The cult slowly disbanded. With no money, job, or education, Flor and her family started over in her father’s hometown of California.
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