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Kissing It All Goodbye

ROBERT HABERKORN IS A 55-YEAR-OLD CONTRACTOR from New Jersey. He and his son, Joe, 32, like KISS. A lot. On a dreary Tuesday night in February they’ve come to see the band’s Allentown, Pennsylvania, stop on its current “End of the Road Tour,” advertised as their last ever. (A 2000 reunion of the original members of the band was also supposed to be their swansong, but never mind.)

“This is my 65th time tonight since 1977,” Haberkorn says. “My first one was at Madison Square Garden in December ’77 with the four original guys in makeup, and I took my son for his first one at the Garden in New York City, the same four guys with the makeup,

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