COLUMBIA, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- There's an old, brick government office off Highway 151 between Hartsville and Darlington, just past the Darlington Dragway.

The office has sat there for as long as I can remember.

It's always housed the local Department of Motor Vehicles office, and the S.C. Highway Patrol has its small Troop 5, Post A office tucked into a corner of the back of the building.

For those of us who grew up around there, that building was the scariest place on Earth when it was time to start the adventure of becoming a licensed driver.

All the 15 and 16-year-olds around Hartsville, and probably Darlington, knew it as the last place you dared take the road test to get your beginner's permit.

The problem was, it was the only DMV anywhere around.

There was one examiner al

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