I Found Happiness | Learn English Through Story Level 2 | English Listening Practice

I wake before the first line of light reaches the Blue Ridge Mountains. At that hour, the farmhouse is still, the valleys are dark, and the air smells of wet stone and pine. I dress without turning on the main lamp. Thick socks. Work pants. A cotton shirt. Then the heavy canvas suit that hangs beside the back door. Its cloth carries the scents of smoke, wax, clover, and old summers. Those smells feel more familiar to me than perfume ever could.

My name is Lorelei, and I am thirty-eight years old. I manage three hundred beehives across five hundred acres of mountain land. My great-grandfather bought the first fields. My grandfather planted the apple trees. My mother taught me how to hold a frame without crushing a single bee. Four generations of my family worked this ground, and every path holds a memory.

Before sunrise, I cross the south meadow with my smoker in one hand and a wooden tool in the other. Dew soaks the knees of my pants. The grass bends under my boots. As the sky turns gray, the first bees rise from their hives. Their sound begins softly, then grows into one deep, steady hum.

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