SHREWSBURY – They were together from the beginning.
When Kym Dufault was a six-month-old infant, her mother frequently convened with a very nice – and very pregnant – stay-at-home mom friend, Mary, who lived in an apartment across the hall. During an otherwise uneventful get-together, Mary’s water broke, and with labor forthcoming, Kym’s mother, Charron, drove her to the hospital.
There, baby Michael was born – Kym’s future husband.
Growing up, then growing apart
With families connected, Kym and Michael spent their childhoods around one another. They were classmates at Happy Acres Preschool. Kym celebrated her fourth birthday among family and friends; photos, found years later, reveal that she was sitting next to Michael that day.
But as time went on, the families grew apart. Kym moved to Shrewsbury, away from Michael. Working at the old Ground Round, she’d run into Michael occasionally, always thinking of him as a nice gentleman, but the relationship they had as toddlers? That wasn’t coming back…