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When we terminated Jerome, I began to see what type of sick

person I was dealing with. As I was cleaning out his desk, I found
women's underwear, a bottle of Viagra, and a collection of

pornography on a CD. Later, I learned from Tyrone he had the IT guy
download porn for him. It is a wonder we were not sued on that stint

alone. Tyrone also began to tell me how he had been online

connecting with dating websites. I knew he had flown to Atlanta a
couple of times; again, in my naïveté, I believed he was meeting with

potential new government clients. According to Tyrone, his boy was
in Atlanta to have sex with women he met on dating websites. He

would then call Tyrone and complain about how he was not able to
perform. Tyrone felt those conversations were strange because

Tyrone is a man's man and would not have that kind of conversation
with another man. Yet Tyrone always tried to cover up for him. The

more Tyrone and I talked the more we both learned about the sick
person we were dealing with.

My suspicion of Jerome being on the down-low was confirmed
when Tyrone talked about the picture of one of Jerome's former best

friends. When Jerome purchased the first Mercedes, he placed a

photograph on the dashboard of a former friend who was a
bodybuilder. Jerome had always been into bodybuilding and
performed in competitions. Somewhere along the way, he and the best

friend had fallen out. I never really got the true story behind that

situation. Jerome had lived with the “BFF" when we all worked at
Cox. Jerome and his friend had a major falling out, I guess Jerome

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