Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

So I told her I'd take it and asked if she would like me to bring
over a check for earnest money. I told her I would come over right now.
She said she didn't need any earnest money. She said just to come to the
closing.
What I really wanted to do
was to buy everything inside the house
too, all the tables and chairs and all
the kachinas and everything. But Ijust
didn't have the chutzpah to ask. She
was selling stuff at flea markets and
everywhere, but Ijust couldn't ask.
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'" ::: HSFF: How have you kept
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] Anne: I haven't had children
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c... and we lived here as a couple for ten
or fifteen years, and it's very suited for
two grown-up people who enjoy entertaining. It's even great when one of
us wants to make conversation and the other wants to watch TV.
HSFF: Many people have to asserttheir individualityover a house.
Anne: That's one reason I was able to get it. A prominent lawyer
who lived down the street was on the list ahead of me to buy it. His ,
wife told me later that he just didn't think he could live in another man's
house. Another person didn't want to live in it because ofthe noise from
the Old Santa Fe Trail. And the Texas people didn't want to live in it
because they thought they would have to put up too much money for
second story.
HSFF: Was it noisy then?
Anne:
Yes, but nothing like it is now. In 1976, the Old Pecos
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