WANTED: Child to remain a virgin for the next 30 years, to be taken from family and devote all of daily life to the job, failure to succeed will lead to death by being buried alive. If this was a job advertisement today people would be horrified but this was essentially the job of the vestal virgins. In this episode Jen will tell you the story of one of the worst jobs in history.

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