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My father decided to augment his flower gardening with bee keeping before I was born. He got his first hive, got stung during set up and discovered that he was extremely allergic to bees. They rushed him to the hospital after he started turning different colors, swelling and breathing with difficulty.
Despite an unpleasant start he persevered, voluntarily getting stung once a month to build up a tolerance and keeping a syringe of antidote in the fridge in case something terrible happened. All throughout my youth we kept a few hives.