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March 2, 2012 - 7:28pm
A LaFayette, N.Y. native finds his life’s purpose in a jar of honey.

Perched on a blue canvas deckchair propped on a plastic bin, Jon Michael Berry resembles a captain looking to sea. Small tufts of white hair poke out of his black sailor's cap, and a scruffy white beard helps conceal the few subtle smiles that flash across his face.

Berry wears simple brown shoes and clean blue jeans. Over a green thermal, he wears a slate-gray flannel covered in a pattern of black and tan wolves. His pale blue eyes are difficult to read.