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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Going
Hives
Life
Bees
People
Complicated
Inside
Secret
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Anything
Ideas
Hive

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