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John Colman Wood teaches anthropology at the University of North Carolina Asheville and keeps about twenty beehives in the mountains.
It was an old tradition he had once told her about: When there was a death in the household, the beekeeper would go out to tell the bees about it. The thought was that, if the bees were not told, they would abscond. They were members of the family. Their feelings would be hurt if they were overlooked.
So he was doing it. Telling them. Romantic fool.
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