Wes is fifty-three years old and one of the only friends that Kevin has. He drinks to slight excess most evenings and with little provocation. He wears his hair long, having begun to grow it out after his marriage of twenty-seven years to Lydia had disintegrated along with the betrayal of his best friend at the time, Mark Dooher. He is most comfortable in khaki shorts and his best friend now is the boxer he got when his marriage ended named Bart.