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A 34-Year Marriage Ends, Um, Very Badly
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A 34-Year Marriage Ends, Um, Very Badly

Meet the Lesniaks of North Carolina.

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Ted Bauer
Feb 26, 2025
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George Lesniak was 63. His wife, Cathleen, was 59. They had been married 34 years and live about 45 minutes from Raleigh. They both worked adjacent to the automotive industry, including him recently being a VP at a Long Island-based company (he worked remotely). By all accounts, they had a nice marriage and produced two sons, one of which had recently gotten married. The last picture on George’s Facebook page is of him and his wife dancing, him dipping her, and him kissing her. It’s from December. Maybe that was their son’s wedding; I’m not sure.

Last week, George took to a Facebook group he was the primary admin of and posted this:

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