The Secret Life of Bees

Make a list of references to honey from Chapter 3.

Chapter 3

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I looked again at the honey jars, at the amber lights swimming inside them, and made myself breathe slowly.

• "I know what you mean. A lot of folks won't buy it "cause it's got the Virgin Mary pictured as a colored woman, but see, that's because the woman who makes the honey is colored herself."

• I spread our lunch out like a picnic on the bench but couldn't eat a bite of it till I told her about the black Mary on the honey jar and the beekeeper named August Boatwright.

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The Secret Life of Bees, Chapter Three