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Elishaba Doerksen, Part 1 - My Family Cult in the Wilderness

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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I Was Born in a Little Sack

"I grew up in the wilderness. I thought the White House was where the president lived," she said. "My father had become like, you know, the hippie midwife during that time." Her mother met her nude and saw her at the hot springs when she was 16 years old. She gave birth to their first child on the deserts of California aged 17.

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