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Outside the tent at Steven Klein’s West Kill Farm, the rain had whipped into a a furious thunder, but the sounds of Tito Puento Jr. and his 10 piece band were all we could hear. The cocktail hour at the Ellen Hermanson Foundation’s Summer Gala, Veinte had just begun, but the serious Latin beat already had partygoers on the floor. Who knew Joan Jedell was once a Latin dance teacher? Or that Event Coordinator Linda Shapiro had known Tito Puento Jr.?

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A guest and Andy Sabin

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Jean Shafiroff and Julie Ratner

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Jean Shafiroff and Shannon Hales

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Scott Broder, Juliette Broder, Wendy Queen, and Al Queen

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Jacqueline Pearson and Jackie Mattera

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Justin Lujan and Victor de Souza

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Daryn Mayer and Tamara Behan

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Marcela Gastelum

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Audrey Puente, Keith Green, and Rosalie Puente

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Liz Derringer and Randi Schatz

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Jean Shafiroff, Emily Levin, Andy Sabin, and Julie Ratner

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Lisa Herbert, Sara Herbert Galloway, and Daniela Zahradnikova

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Tito Puente Jr. and Rosalie Puente

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Grace Perez and Sue Williamson

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Jean Shafiroff, Southamptno Robert Chaloner, and Julie Ratner

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Pat Garrity, Maryann Epley, Mark Epley, and Mary Slattery

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Stephanie Altschuler and Hannah Berg