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CHAPTER 12

The Brotherhood of Misogyny

Tabby found that being married to Kevin was a tough adjustment. She was used to hanging around with friends her own age. She ended up being around Kevin’s friends who were old and not all that friendly.

Ever since she had started coming around Kevin’s Penfield house, she could tell that Kevin’s housemates and friends didn’t like her. One of those friends was William Shero (pseudonym), a divorced man in his late sixties who had worked with Kevin.

Years later, Shero recalled: “Well, we were both attorneys at Hyatt Legal Services, a nationwide franchise out of Cleveland. I was the senior attorney and he was my protégé. I was the manager and he was an employee. We handled all kinds of cases. I worked there for five or six years in the early 1990s. Kevin was already working there when I got hired. We became friends. Kevin bought a house out in Penfield, and I was living in an apartment. I had just gotten a divorce. He had room, so I lived in his house with him for a time.

“Kevin and I mostly went out to dinner—and that was about it. We went to a movie every once in a while, but not too often. We didn’t really hang out together too much. I was there before she came into the picture.

“Kevin bought the house out in Penfield because his parents were out there and he wanted to be close to them. And his cousin lived with us. We were the three bachelors. Then when she came along, the cousin moved out. I forget his cousin’s name. He was a nice guy, a real nice guy. The cousin moved out and then I moved out, and left the two of them alone. And after that, I lost track. You know, I didn’t give a shit. If you are a bachelor, you can’t mix with the lovebirds. It’s a different world.

“So Kevin met Tabatha. She was a piece of shit. He met her and she was married. She was like a cheerleader. You know, a young airhead. She came into the house. He helped her get a divorce; then they got married.

“After she moved in, I moved out and moved back into an apartment, but for a time I was living there with the two of them. For about a month, and that’s about it. I was living in the house with him, and he, they lived together there before they were married.

“Kevin was a great guy. He is a great guy. He’s a piece of work, very intelligent. Unfortunately, he always had a problem—well, not always, but for as long as I knew him—we used to talk about relationships with women. I had had a divorce, and other friends had problems with women.

“He got married, and, unfortunately, it was to the wrong individual. During the month I was there, I couldn’t understand how he got hooked up with a lowlife like that. She had problems. I could tell she wanted to have a family or something. She had the first baby. She wasn’t much of a mother. She induced a premature birth by not drinking too much water. I remember Kevin told me she was fainting. She was, you know, she was weird. Then she had the second baby. Then she came to the office, bringing the two babies. Strange, strange. Then I guess she took up with this guy. I didn’t know what the hell was going on.”