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athy Abraham must cheat her own
bitterness to recall how she once
loved her ex-husband Albert.
From the start, theirs had been
a whirlwind romance, laced with
Broadway revues, intimate dinner
dates and spur-of-the-moment es-
capes to San Francisco and Las
Vegas. "He seemed to be a caring person," she
said. "It didn't last."
Within a week of their 1986 marriage in Ari-
zona, the polite, soft-spoken jeweler who had
helped with household chores and sometimes
charmed her with elegant meals began to
change, she said.
"It was just after my family left that I real-
ized I had made a mistake," said Mrs. Abra-
ham. The romance soon fizzled, they began to
bicker over money and business prospects. "It
all changed from night to day," she said.
Mr. Abraham felt similarly betrayed. "She
put me through one hell of a misery," he said
of their faltering relationship.
Yet despite the growing invective in their
marriage, Kathy Abraham said she was
stunned when, after moving to suburban De-
troit and filing for divorce in early 1992, Albert
After a civil
divorce, some
women find
themselves
still chained
to the relationship
when a get
is refused.
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