We were the only kids in our school that were happy when we went back to school. All the rest of the kids were like, “Oh God, we gotta go back to school.” And we were sitting there going, “Hallelujah, I don’t have to get up at 5:30.” (Barbara laughs) So we really enjoyed that part of it. But it was classic. My dad, of course, taught nine months outta the year, and then the other three months of the year we farmed the farm. But we had a five acre garden. we had all those kind of things that go with a real, working farm in North Carolina. And as I grew up, I watched the veterinarians who were working with our animals there on the farm, and that’s what got me interested in the veterinarian field. I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be a veterinarian.
