"During the Lent, there wasn't any dances then. Right on Easter they had a big dance. Your Aunt Licha was the one. I didn't want to go to the dance but she kept insisting. "Yes, come on. Let's go to the dance." We went to Longfellow Inn at the Easter dance there and that's where I met him [my husband] (laughs) at the dance. [His name was] Ignacio Granado. They called him Tito.

He said, "Let's get married." I said, "okay!" We took off to Lordsburg [New Mexico] and that's where we got married in Lordsburg without telling anybody. [I had been dating him for] a month. (laughs) [I was] around twenty-seven years [old]. So I was old! (laughs) [It was nineteen] forty-nine. There [in Lordsburg] you didn't have to get blood tests and license and all that. You do it right away there and get the license. I didn't have money for all that gala, beautiful dresses, and a boda. No, I didn't [miss it]. Later we got married by the church but I didn't dress fancy or nothing. I just had Lina and Armando, her husband. They went as witnesses. Two of his [my husband's] friends went [with us to Lordsburg] as witnesses.

I left them [my brothers and sister] a note. (laughs) They were supposed to come at noon to eat lunch and I made sandwiches and I signed a note that I went to get married. I thought I was gonna come back because he [my husband] said, "You can come back and stay with them. But after we got married, no we kept to ourselves. I stayed in Clifton. I was just in love and I wanted to get married.

At the beginning it was very sad for me when I first got married and moved to Clifton [Arizona]. I was away from my cousins, my brothers, my sister. The people around there I didn't know. My husband liked to be out with his friends. After work he would come eat and take off with his friends and I would be left alone. I was very lonely but after my kids started coming, it was a lot better. (laughs)

I started crocheting and all that stuff but then I just did a few things. (laughs) It takes so long to do things, so I didn't do much of it. I just started it a few things. Then I started having kids and I didn't have time for anything else. [I still visited with my family] but not as often. I was real close to your mom and my other cousins so I missed that a lot. Now the only ones I keep in touch [with] is Josie and Lina.

We [my husband and I] at first went to dances. Later the only time we were together was when we would take the kids on picnics. He loved camping. Oh, he loved camping. We had a great big tent and all the six kids would fit in that tent, even the dog would fit in it. When it was raining (laughs), he'd come in, too. We'd rough it out there, up to Straight Horse, Cherry Lodge, all those places up there. We would camp in Honeymoon, como decian (what did they call it), the Honeymoon? They called it Honeymoon something. I remember at first we would sleep in the tent and the first thing I'd wake up was to my husband chopping wood and making the bonfire out there so we could do the cooking. We enjoyed camping out.

My husband had friends that liked to drink so just for a few times I went and I didn't like the idea. Drinking for me made me sick. I couldn't take it, more than one beer. (laughs) I told him, "No, I don't want to go out." Oh yes, [we had] plenty [of disagreements]! (laughs) It mostly was arguing and I decided that I can't change him. (laughs) The fights were mostly about his drinking. He loved to drink.

He would tell me, "I want to buy this or that." Afterwards [after I got married], I couldn't go out with my cousins anymore. They were in Morenci, I was in Clifton but I had a comadre that I would talk to or maybe go to a store with.

[I had] six children. There's Becky, my oldest, and Daniel, Fred, and Millie, Steve, and Pat. [They were born in] Morenci Hospital but we lived in Clifton, Arizona. He [my husband, Tito] worked in the mine and then for himself. He used to make trincheras and graves. He didn't like to have a boss. One time he got angry with his cousin (laughs) when he was at the Phelps Dodge and just quit on them. He used to make trincheras and he was a gravedigger.

I wanted them [my children] to finish their school for sure. My husband was real set on all of them going to college. If they would forget their homework, he would make them go back to school and bring their homework. He made them study and I did too, encourage them to study but it was mostly my husband who pushed them. At least all of them went to junior college. Becky and Steve were the ones who continued to the university but most of them went to junior college. Yes, [we had the same expectations for the both the boys and girls to continue their schooling] I think so.

No, [I didn't plan my first pregnancy]! Nor the next one or the next one or the next one! (laughs) None of them! They just came one after another! They're just a year apart, all of them. I got pretty sick of it [being pregnant]! He [my husband] liked [having that many children]. He wanted more. I said, "No more, no more. Six is enough!" (laughs) I'd go to the doctor [in Morenci]. He was working for PD then. They [PD hospital] didn't charge much. We would stay (laughs) forever there! It was about five days we stayed there. (laughs) I remember they would put a real tight bandage around us. Now you have your baby and out you go."