Mothers of invention
August 28th, 2008Reporter Michael Valpy travels to Cape Cod to explain how a bizarre religious group fabricated by two charismatic women sparked controversy and alleged abuse at an elite Ontario private school
MICHAEL VALPY
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
October 6, 2007 at 12:00 AM EDT
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ORLEANS, MASS. — They were two overweight boozing housewives who hid their drinking, their harridan brawling and their lesbian affair from all but a few obeisant servants. They lived like royalty with a private plane at their command, a Jaguar, a Bermuda estate and a flat in England.
In private, they read cheap magazines, consumed vast amounts of food, fought physically and shrieked at each other for hours on end.