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"There was a client back here a little while ago, who was also interested in beekeeping."
He seemed to love the idea of bees living freely inside the walls, but she suggested rather firmly that leaving them there was not a good idea. It was the opinion of someone invested in the place, it seemed to me in retrospect, not of someone about to leave. I pointed out that honey might attract other wildlife, and he conceded, almost comically reluctant and quite opposite from her reaction.
"By 'wildlife' you mean vermin," she said. I nodded. He responded to her with a rant about irrational social constructions on the value and purpose of non-human species. "I have no problems socially constructing rats as undesirable tenants," she said. He mumbled something about losing a unique experimental opportunity. She asked when we could start removing the bees.
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