90-plus percent of them serve two purposes, either fire protection in rural areas or water and sewer districts in rural areas, with a smattering of other kind of unique things like airports, a couple of hospitals. So the legislature, the delegation from Richland and Lexington County took advantage of that law, which, by the way, in 1973 was deemed unconstitutional, and there have been then- We were the last one created. So they created this district and said, “Go forth and build a zoo,” with no real definition of what that meant or anything. Created a commission of seven people, two from one county, Richland, two from Lexington, two from the city, and an at-large member. So as this is going on, I’m going through college, totally unaware that this is going on, so far off my radar. I’m in Clemson, two-and-a-half-hour car drive away. After my sophomore year, I never came home. But anyway, on a very fateful day in the early spring of my junior year, I came home, probably to get laundry done.
