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San Francisco Magazine
It had been nearly 20 years since she’d sold her house at 1644 Great Highway, but 85-year-old Marjorie Alette couldn’t help going back to spy on it. Every now and then, she would drive down 101 from her current home in Santa Rosa, cross the Golden Gate Bridge, and slowly wend her way to the outermost Sunset. On one of these furtive drive-bys a year or two ago, Alette noticed that the house had changed. “It looked very rundown,” she says. “It had a bunch of trash in front, and it hadn’t been taken care of a