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He has always known how to clear a room. And always relished the role of provocateur, sometimes deployed with more success than others.

As I was responsible for all communications with the hospital and the head doctor, who has always been gracious toward me, my colleagues never discovered my failure.

After a time, the famous tabletops could no longer take the abuse without permanent damage, some beyond recognition, so the owner had round plates of glass cut to fit them.

Although experience told me that while bees are unbelievably smart about so many things, they don’t have emotions in the same way we do. At least not individually. But there is such a thing as hive mentality. I’d seen hard evidence of it many times over the years.

Most of all, he’d lost solitude and a vital, unhurried connection with the natural world around him.