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In the intervening years, Anderson, who is 95, has plumbed the cloistered world of clock collectors.

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Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.

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Unlike Parolin, he has decades of pastoral experience – meaning he has been an active Church leader among the people as opposed to a diplomat for the Vatican or cloistered expert on Church law.

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The single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.

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The assured magnate, the superficial wife, the doted-upon child who was raised so cloistered he whistles canary songs to a tank of crawdads and tries to teach pet tricks to a fish.

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