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The Transaction: The right price

The love and heartbreak of a musician's first guitar.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1970.

Marketplace listener Jose Antonio Ponce was 13 when he learned a few chords on the guitar, and he fell in love. But when his teacher, his brother, moved away for a job and took his guitar with him, Jose had to figure out a way to get his own. 

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