private room, up above the auction area, so he could watch everything going on. sotheby s had arranged for one of the people who would normally be taking bids to give me a running detail on the telephone about what was happening at the auction. i was at the institute, too. i could not bear to listen to the phone. it was too much. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to sotheby s. we have for auction today the fossil of a tyrannosaurus rex known as sue. the property of the united states of america in trust of morris williams of south dakota. and now let us, if we re all ready, begin the competition for sue the tyrannosaurus rex. and i now begin with a bid of
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all right. yeah! that moment, when we made that separation, that was probably the highest point of my life. how was that? champagne. hide it. hide it. there has to be a toast. who toasts? this whole i don t know. cheers. just, cheers. you ready? ready. sue. to old sue. sue. sue. sue. yeah. yeah. it s very good champagne. look at this. i know. we were riding on top of the world. we had everything going for us. less than a week after that, all
along and try to cope as well as we could. while i was in prison, sue was also still in prison. and there were rumors that sue was going to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. it really was obvious to me at that time that the only way to get her away from maurice williams was through sotheby s. all of us was aware that the auction was takes place. it would probably sell for $1 million or $2 million. the big fear was that it was going to be sold to some private individual. i know there were a lot of people concerned that it might be bought by an institution in a foreign country. that was a big concern with the media, that it was going to be sold and lost to science and sold and put in a private room
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