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Beekeeper Mary Canning follows her sweet passion

CAMBRIDGE - After Mary Canning endured the death of her mother in the late 1990s and her first husband in 2004, the former WGBH employee went looking for a lively career. “What’s more alive than bees and honey?’’ she asks. “I think people crave things that are alive and things that are beautiful.’’

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