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Antonette Hespe
"Kevin, we've talked about this-- no, unless you're willing to hear my side of the story then I really don't want to go through it again... no, no no. Can I just call you back? I'm driving the girls to mom's house now..."
I imagined him matching my mother's anger on the other end of the line. She was screaming now. "In our ten years of marriage, TEN YEARS, Kevin! You have maybe apologized to me twice. Do you realize that? No, No, maybe I'm the delusional one to believe that you could view yourself as part of what's wrong here!"
The familiar sound of my mom's ringtone filled kitchen. I continued chopping up strawberries on my cutting board while my sister washed off the grapes for fruit salad. My mom picked up and greeted the person on the other line, and she tensed up as she listened to them speak.
He spoke almost without expression what he said, "Today would be me and your mother's eighteenth wedding anniversary." I didn't know what to say to that. I think he could tell, because he looked at me and said, "You know, I wouldn't change a single thing if it meant I wouldn't have you and your sister. Not one single thing. Not the fact that I work two jobs, not the fact that I live half of the week alone. I know switching back and forth is harder on you than you let on, it's hard on all of us. Life is so messy, but we have you girls and everyone came out on the other end of this okay. So, you know, how could we care?"
Then things became complicated. Carey was married at the time to Tommy Mottola, head of Sony Music. They broke up in 1997 and her relationship with Afanasieff, who kept working for Mottola, became a casualty of that fractured marriage.