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LoveExotic for Family by Choice at the Clay Pit
LoveExotic is a cool name for a party. It suggests warmth and friendliness. But also something global, adventurous.
That certainly was the case upstairs at the Clay Pit late on Saturday. (Yes, still catching up on the weekend posts. A lot of socializing to report. Several more to go.) Light were dimmed. Booths offered wine and spirits from around the world. Servers toted around savory snacks.
Abi and David De Leon
Generous Daniel Northcutt, co-owner of Frank, had a lot to do with that. I don’t know if they were volunteers, but the servers really “sold” their wares.
John Pointer sang, after telling me about an online music idea he plans to unveil later this spring. (You’d be astonished how many news tips can be harvested at such events.) I spent considerable time with social marathoners Devin Ellis and Marques Harper.
Melanie René and Eryn Culotta
Oh, the cause? Family by Choice, a nonprofit that helps nontraditional families. According to its website, it “assists families in locating and connecting to appropriate licensed adoption and foster care placing agencies, as well as other needed services, and to secure second parent adoptions when applicable.”
Clarita Sanchez and Oscar Ramirez
Its support groups, overseen by director Jose Cardenas and by program director Susan J. Griffith, include “Mommy-O’s” and “Daddy-O’s.” Now you gotta admit, that’s cute.
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