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...could not believe Monette was involved. Maureen Hanemann had bumped into Monette at a real estate agency in New Orleans in the summer of 1972. Monette, who was working for the firm, told Maureen she was married to a Tulane medical school student and that her teenage romance with Spiro was a part of her life "she'd rather forget...
...about that time that Spiro and Monette Pavlovich celebrated their first wedding anniversary...
Judging from their undergraduate days in the mid-sixties, the match seemed inevitable. Friends remember how Monette, then in a Catholic girls academy, idolized the Loyola College stud. The pair were considered very fast--Maureen Hanemann remembers being shocked when a number of friends found Spiro and Monette out on a levee, zipped up in a sleeping bag together. "At that time [1965] you just didn't do that," she recalls...
...Spiro had "a certain aura of being cool," says Emile Lafourcade, secretary of Spiro's fraternity. "Anyone who could drive around in a new T-Bird when everybody else was going around in '59 junk-heaps had something up on the rest...
What people remember about Monette was that she was "one hell of a looker"; what they remember about Spiro are the pranks. While at Loyola, he sponsored an expensive formal, and tried to pass off an unknown nightclub singer as Aretha Franklin. The fraud was exposed, but when Hanemann saw Spiro after he transferred to Tulane, there were signs in Spiro's car promoting another Aretha dance. "Spiro, what are these signs?" asked Hanemann. "No, no," Pavlovich assured him, "this time she really is coming...