Gershwin started cheating on Lilly three months before they were married.
His affair with Kate wouldn’t last very long, though it would last as long as his marriage.
When he met her, she was an undergraduate student. She was shorter than Lilly, with curly black hair, a fuller figure, larger lips, and a broader smile, and though it pained him to admit it, smarter and more interesting. She wore loose-fitting clothes, men’s T-shirts, army pants or sweatpants, cardigans that were grandfatherly, sweatshirts that obscured her figure, canvas tennis shoes, and a ski jacket that should have belonged to a larger man. She was of that peculiar group of women who looked surprisingly better naked than dressed, which for Gershwin was like opening a birthday present that he expected would be a tie or a
