One day when I was doing my visit to the zoo, Marlin proceeded to tell me goodbye, and told me he’s going back to St. Louis. Marlin had started his career there, went from St. Louis to Buffalo, Buffalo, Chicago, and now back to St. Louis. And he was going to be the director there. And I thought, “Oh, that’s unfortunate.” Because I mentioned earlier, we’d become good friends. And we talked about it and I went home and sort of felt badly that probably that might end my relationship at Lincoln Park. On the other hand, the zoo bug had bitten me somewhere, somehow in my body. And I sort of was losing interest in my veterinary practice, I say this not in a personal bragging way, but just I worked hard and built up a heck of a good practice. I had five doctors working with me at that time in history, and I became more valuable to the operation as the front man rather than the front and back man.
