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Meet Old Cal, the philosopher

I FIRST MET Old Cal in the kitchen of the parish hall where he was brewing a cup of tea. He wore baggy pants and suspenders over a plaid shirt. His lined face featured an immaculately combed grey beard that fell like a sparkling waterfall.

His name was Calvin, though everyone knew him simply as Old Cal. He was the resident hermit. Literally. No one knows for certain just when he moved into the organ loft at All Saints Church. The custodian said he suspected something about six years ago when an old chair and a well-worn reading lamp suddenly went missing. And no one knows to this day just how he managed to get a queen size box spring and mattress way up there between those 16-foot pipes.

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