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Handsome Hispanic stonemason in his early fifties with dark hair streaked with gray, a short salt-and-pepper beard and dark eyes standing in front of an old adobe mission church in Santa Fe at golden hour, dusty work shirt with sleeves rolled up

The City of Santa Fe Gave the Same 300-Year-Old Church to Two Restorers. She Did the Glass, I Did the Stone, and We Both Wanted the Other One Fired

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I’ve rebuilt adobe and stone walls in New Mexico for twenty-eight years. I don’t work with partners. Then the city hired a stained-glass artist from San Francisco to restore the windows of the same 300-year-old church, on the same deadline, and she started by telling me my scaffolding was in her light.

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