Young Girl’s Dreams Dashed

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8 year old Olivia McConnell had a dream of having the Wooly Mammoth declared the official state fossil of South Carolina. And a law to make it so was on the verge of passage before getting held up on State Sen. Kevin Bryant (R) insistence that the authorizing legislation specify that the God created the mammoth on the “on the sixth day with the beasts of the field.”

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