So I looked around and found on Harlem Avenue, a sheet metal shop that was going out of business and looked at the place, and looked like it could be adapted to a small animal hospital, and so I decided to buy it. And went and saw Marlin, and said, “Marlin, just wanna say goodbye. “And thanks for the time I’ve spent here with you “and the animals, and I’m gonna start my practice.” And he said, “Well, I don’t have anybody here, “I could use some help. “Would you consider being a part-time zoo doctor?” And I said, “I don’t know, I hadn’t thought about it. “I don’t have any clients, I’m starting from zero.” I said, “So I could put some time.” And we agreed that half a day a week and emergencies, I would go down to Lincoln Park and look at the animal health issues. So that’s how I got started at a Lincoln Park Zoo, is just, again, a bunch of coincidences, the geographic proximity of Northwestern and the zoo, and through Wes Young and Marlin being there. And so I started my practice out in the town there, Berwyn Riverside area. And took care of the zoo, that went on for probably 15 years.
