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By Scott Cissel

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

A year-long recovery from a riding injury, which shattered his scapula and broke his collarbone, gave Jerry Warren a lot of time to reflect on his life and contemplate his future. A suggestion by his wife, Viviane, led to his decision to return to school to study theology.

It was an unexpected move for Warren, a 72-year-old former White House spokesman and newspaper editor, who lives south of Middleburg in The Plains. Warren is now in his second semester of a two-year master’s program at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria.

His decision to enter the seminary “thrilled” his two grown children, but astonished former newspaper colleagues in California.

“My buddies ... they think I'm nuts,” he said. “My friends

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