She Bought the House Her Mother Cleaned for 43 Years
Briefly

Out of all the houses her mother cleaned while she was growing up in Albuquerque, N.M., Nichol Naranjo fell in love with the one her mother cleaned on Fridays  a midcentury home built around an interior courtyard and decorated with European antiques.Ms. Naranjo would sit under a Thomasville desk in the library and imagine herself running a business, while her mother, Margaret Gaxiola, dusted the desk and polished it with lemon oil.
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