She had taken a solemn vow of chastity since then, like one of her made-up childhood rituals of lying in freezing cold water, but to someone with her natural generosity it was a heartless, bitter thing.

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One former seminarian, who did not want to be named because he is still active in the church and not authorized to speak publicly, told CNN the vow of chastity was one of the chief reasons he dropped out of the vocation.

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Well, maybe, but he broke his vow of ethical chastity, and placed the 80-year-old Buffett and Berkshire in the hot-seat of regulatory focus.

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The problem is, the government's vow of economic chastity has limited its thinking.

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