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in the New York City Borough of Queens.

As you can imagine, law enforcement is an extremely demanding profession, and it gave Gilberto very little time to do anything else.

After grueling 14-hour shifts, all he wanted to do when he clocked off was collapse into bed and sleep like the dead. Then on his off days he found himself

far too exhausted to socialize, and this left Gilberto and something of a predicament. He longed for a romantic partner but simply didn't

have the time to look for one in person so instead he put his faith into the online dating

website okay- Cupid.

This is how Gilberto met Kathleen Mangan, an elementary school teacher who'd recently

settled in East Harlem.

They hit it off fairly quickly, and after just a few months of dating they moved into a small one bedroom

apartment together near 88th Street and 3rd Avenue. It was nice at first, Kathleen later recalled.

We laughed a lot, he was a gentleman, but things changed after I got pregnant.

After breaking the news to him, Kathleen expected Gilberto to be happy. Instead, he seemed horrified. He kept saying,

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