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THE BEAR KING And so goes the story of The Bear King… A tiny infant bear, the runt of his litter, lay withering and abandoned by his mother. Not given a name, symbolically declared insignificant and useless to all, with no purpose, he lay in his misery prepared to enter his inevitable death. Lying on the forest floor just outside a blossom-filled meadow he breathed in the scent of wildflowers lingering in the wind as a buzzing sound filled his ears. Overhead was a honeybee. The bee buzzed around for a time attracting the notice of the tiny bear and...