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| Buddhist officials in Nepal are having a difficult time recruiting 5-year-old girls to be official goddesses, to live in palaces and be waited on hand-and-foot. | |
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| The problem is that the goddesses' jobs end automatically at puberty, and the girls increasingly are unprepared for the rest of their lives. | |
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| I think I have found my calling. | |
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| And legend has it that men who marry ex-goddesses die young. | |
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