May 22, 2023 • 14 mins
The Fresh Air Fund is a New York City institution, providing summer adventures for urban kids through a number of programs, including free sleepaway camps and their signature Volunteer Host Family Program. CEO Lisa Gitelson visits as 2023 recruiting for participants, host families, and paid summer camp staff begins! For more, visit freshair.org.
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(00:02):
Welcome to Get Connected with Nina delRio, a weekly conversation about fitness,
health and happenings in our community onone oh six point seven Light FM.
Good morning, and thanks for listeningto get connected. The Fresh Air Fund
is a New York City institution providingsummer adventures for urban kids through a number
of programs, including free sleepaway campsand their signature Volunteer Host Family program.
(00:27):
The Fresh Air Fund CEO Lisa Gittlesonjoins me and welcome back to the show.
Lisa, Thank you so much.It's a pleasure. You can find
out more about them at fresh airdot org. Last year, the Fresh
Air Fund was finally able to getback to signature programs after the pandemic.
We're going to talk about this year, but how did last year go?
Last year was a great return tothe work that we have traditionally done,
(00:50):
and we're excited to continue to buildon that this summer. It was really
amazing to give those that we servedthe opportunity once again to participate in outdoor
activities, especially after such a longtime when all of us were indoors and
without the social interactions we all reallyneed and want to have in this world.
We keep hearing for all sorts ofthings like vacation bookings. They're huge
(01:11):
this year, flights and hotels becauseof perhaps this pent up demand after the
pandemic. Are you feeling the samefrom city families wanting to get out?
We are, without questions, seeingmany more applicants, certainly than last summer.
I think that's in part due towhat the last few years have looked
like, and also people feeling thatwhile COVID still absolutely exists and then perhaps
(01:32):
all of our lives, we're learninghow to live with it in a different
way, and people are getting readyto participate again in parts of their lives
that had been on hold. Solet's talk about your programs. The Fresh
Air Fund is now registering New YorkCity children for free summer programs at the
sleepaway camps in New York's smid HudsonValley, also visiting volunteer host families along
(01:53):
the East Coast those sleep away camps. You know, I didn't go to
sleepweight camp. One of my sistersdid. I never went. I have
the stories. Everyone who goes seemsto have stories and friends forever. What
is the Fresh Air Camp like?Where is it? And what's going on
there. Great. So we havesix sleep Boy camps. Five of them
are located in Fishkill on a propertycalled Sharpe that we own, and we're
(02:14):
very lucky that somebody made that giftto us. And we have a sixth
camp that is in Harriman State Park, so for those people who know Bear
Mountain, it's in that same parkarea. Our programs are very much like
every sleep Boy camp kind of that'sout there. We have incredible activities.
We have staff that are trained andexcited to work with youth. Kids have
(02:36):
the opportunity to do all kinds ofthings including sports and drama and arts and
crafts. We have a farm thatkids participate in on. I love the
farm. It's one of my favoriteparts. We had this wonderful donor who
quite some time ago gave us aplanetarium and so kids get to go to
the planetarium. We have a lotof nature activities. We have high ropes
(03:00):
and low ropes courses, we havecamp, we have hiking and overnights in
the woods. We have kind ofevery fun thing you kind of want to
imagine in a summer campaign program.You're also hiring summer camp staff, including
camp counselors, program specialists, lifeguards, nurses, and more. Positions are
paid for and include room and boardin addition to those qualifications. What kind
(03:21):
of people are you looking for?So I want to say two things about
that. I'm happy to talk aboutthe qualifications. I myself both was lucky
to go to sleepaway camp for foursummers. But then I worked at sleepaway
camp for four summers, and Ican tell you without question it's the reason
that I do this work. Itshaped me and impacted me in extraordinary ways.
Having the ability to work with youthis what made me want to work
(03:44):
with youth always for the rest ofmy life. So I know that it
is both extraordinarily fun to be acounselor. It's a lot of work,
but it's also fun because it meansduring the summer. And I've also when
I was younger, I did jobsin retail and I did jobs, you
know, in restaurants. Those aregreat because you make some nice money and
you don't get to spend all daywith your peers. One of the wonderful
things about being a counselor at asleepaway camp as you spend the whole summer
(04:08):
with your peers and get to havea lot of wonderful relationships as well.
What are we looking for. We'relooking for people who enjoy youth, who
enjoy being around kids, who wantto have a good fun summer, because
that's what you're going to have.You will work hard and have a lot
of fun and make some nice moneyas well. With all of that,
you've kind of suggested it, butyou know, a lot of the kids
(04:30):
who visit Summer Camp come back yearafter year. The Summer Camp staff they
do year after year as well.About thirty percent of our staff are people
who were once youth with us,so alumni that become our part of our
staff team, which is incredible andwonderful. And you know, it also
means that if you're sending your youthto camp and it might be their first
time, there's going to be staffthere who have experienced it, and that's
(04:50):
very helpful for that kid who mightbe homesick it's their first experience. They
can say I did this too,like when I was jured, I did
this, and here's what it's amazingabout it and give them a lot of
support that way. So it isa free summer camp for participants as part
of the registration. Is there afinancial requirement or threshold for participant families,
(05:12):
You need to be USDA approved.If you are, then you're going to
meet our financial requirement. Our guestis Lisa Gittleson. She's CEO of the
Fresh Air Fund. Their website isfresh air dot org. You're listening to
get connected on one oh six pointseven light FM. I'm Nina del Rio.
Last year, the Fresh Air FundVolunteer host Family program stuck with families
(05:33):
who had participated in the past,and now you're back to looking for first
time volunteer families. Similar thing.In short, how are a host family
screened and what are the minimum requirementsthat's great host family minimum requirements are that
you live for new families, thatyou live within a three hour radius of
New York City, that you haveenough space in your home, that there's
(05:54):
an additional bed. You do notneed an additional bedroom, but there must
be a bed. That's for theyouth that will be staying with you.
And for first time host families,you need to have a child of your
own one or more children of yourown. It can be a two parent
home a single parent home, butyou do need to have a youth of
your own, and then the screeningrequirements. We do run a background check
(06:17):
and after that there will be somebodywho also visits your home, interviews you,
and then those same people are goingto be around for the rest of
the summer to support you. Dotraining, be available for questions, be
available for any type of support thatyou're looking for. I was going to
ask about that because we're in thismoment where everyone is stressed, kids included.
There is advice or counseling available ifyou should need it. As a
(06:41):
host family, we have twenty fourour support for all of our anyone who's
participating with us over the summer.So if you're a host family, or
if you're a family who has sentyour youth to one of our camps or
to our host program, you cancall any time of the day or night
once our program start until the momentit ends, and there will be somebody
to support you in that moment.There's also just kind of general regular support,
(07:03):
especially with regard to the host familiesbecause they're not our employees, so
we're also just kind of available withall different tips and ideas throughout the summer
to support the program. All thestaff at camp are supported in that their
staff, they're supervisors, and alot of support there for them as well.
So regarding space outside of the house, you're an ac county just outside
(07:26):
of New York, you may justhave a regular backyard and that's it.
You might think you don't have enoughgoing on to host. What would you
say and what are some of themore creative and fun things you've seen host
families do without really doing crazy thingswith the kids. So every home has
something of interest, and I wouldwant everybody to know that every relationship that
(07:46):
any of us enter into offers ussomething new and different, and that's just
amazing and wonderful. If you livein somewhere where you have no backyard space,
that's fine as well. Certainly Iknow a families who every night after
dinner go for a walk in theneighborhood. I'm not saying you need to
go hike the Appalachian Trail. Wouldthat stay with you? You know when
the mister Softy truck or the mistergood Humor truck because you're in the suburbec
(08:07):
get good Humor instead of mister Softydrives by, go outside, good nice
cream and you know, sit outsideon on the sidewalk or on the front
steps and eat people, certainly,And we know families who might go to
a local community pool and take thekids to local outdoor community pools. Most
communities have some kind of local parkor playground. I mean, you don't
(08:30):
need to have anything more than thewillingness to create a relationship with a youth
that will come to visit you.If you look at some of the comments
online about people who've been a partof this program New York City families,
some will say, specifically, we'reblack, we live in the South Bronx,
so we live in niches segregated partof Brooklyn, and this is the
first time my child has spent timewith a white family or a family that
(08:52):
doesn't look like theirs. And itmay feel like stating the obvious, but
the experience for both the New YorkCity kids and host families is not necessarily
just about seeing the stars and goingto the town pool. I'm so glad
you brought that up. This issomething that I really really always want to
talk about. It's one of theareas I think sometimes people are a little
bit more challenged to discuss. Weabsolutely want to acknowledge that for the most
(09:15):
part, we're going to be placingyouth into the homes of families that might
be different, and families might havea youth placed in their home that is
also has a different background. Andyou need to be somebody who values this,
who understands why it's important to havediversity in your life, in your
family's life, and that you're respectfulof understanding everybody's place in this relationship is
(09:39):
so valuable, and importantly it's nota one sided thing. That we're all
creating relationships and we all are sharingwho we are with each other, and
that's really where the value I thinkis. I don't mean value like my
NA. I mean value like personalexperience. Like I always kind of joke
that I think I'm pretty good atbeing me. I don't know somebody who's
being me better than me. I'mnot perfect, but I'm really good at
(10:00):
being me. I don't want tobe in a room with a bunch of
other means I already know me.I want to be in a room with
people that are bring something different tothe conversation, to what I know about
the world, all of that,and I really think that's what I hope
for with everybody who participates in ourprograms, whether it's friendly towns or camp
And how much communication. I guessit's up to the parents to some degree,
(10:20):
But how much communication do both setsof parents have, the parents in
the city and the parents they haveas much as they want to, And
we certainly encourage there to be communication. I absolutely know about families who the
two families really become a family together. And sometimes, like I hear about,
like the two families having Thanksgiving together, or you know, when one
(10:41):
family, that out of New YorkCity family comes to the city for a
visit, they spend you know,most of their time with the New York
City family, showing them around,and they're happy to like have like see
part of the world through somebody else'seyes when they've already shared their part of
their world with their youth. Socertainly families have a decent amount of conversation,
and we urge them to have whateverfeels good and right. So we're
(11:03):
talking, Lisa at the beginning ofthe summer season, perhaps the busiest season
for Fresh Air Fund. But oneof the things I know you wanted to
do when you took on this rolea year ago was to try to infuse
more fresh air options into the restof the year. So what did you
envision and how is that going?So what I envisioned, certainly initially because
I have a bigger long term picture, but initially the year round programs that
we already have making sure that theyadded outdoor activities into those programs. And
(11:28):
that's what we have been able todo in the first year that I've been
here. So we have a programcalled Circle of Brotherhood, which is for
youth who have identified as boys whowant to be in a group to have
discussions about what does it mean tobe identified as a boy in this world
and how do you kind of movethrough the world. So they're doing some
(11:48):
outdoor trips as part of that.It doesn't mean every time it's going to
be outdoors, but to have someoutdoor trips. So for all of our
programs, we've kind of added insome outdoor trips. We're talking about some
bigger picture changes that would involve alot more outdoor time year round. Not
ready to roll those out yet,but I would say stay tuned because they're
exciting and I know they're going tobe wonderful and great. I am a
(12:11):
deep believer in we're the Fresh AirFund, and we need to offer fresh
air options. I also believe deeplythat New York City itself is full of
fresh air options. You don't haveto get onto a bus and come to
one of our programs. And mybig goal in what we'll be doing next
is that we will be introducing freshair options to youth that then they don't
(12:33):
need us for So, like,you know, maybe on Saturday we do
an activity at the Harlem Mere andgo fishing, and then on Sunday that
same you could participates calls their friendor their cousin and says, I know
how to do this, Like,let's go do this. So we want
to really like empower youth to ownthe fresh air of New York City and
to make it theirs as well.If you can't be a host family this
(12:54):
year, or you don't have achild that needs to or wants to join
the summer program, how can someonelisten help the Fresh Air Fund? Sure?
So we often have volunteers that participatein different ways, including we have
clean up days at our camp,so sometimes people volunteer to come up and
help, like do some very heavyyardwork or do some other clean up work.
(13:15):
At Camp we have people who functionas tutors and mentors for our youth,
and we're also happy to discuss that. We're also grateful always for any
contributions that people can make economically tohelp us support the work that we do.
You can find out about the freshAir Funds many programs at fresh air
dot org. Lisa Gettleson' CEO hasbeen our guest. Thank you for being
(13:35):
on Get Connected. Thank you somuch, really appreciate it. Thank you
for the wonderful questions. This hasbeen Get Connected with Nina del Rio on
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not necessarily reflect the views of thestation. If you missed any part of
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podcasts at one o six seven lightfmdot com. Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Get Connected with Nina delRio, a weekly conversation about fitness,
health and happenings in our community onone oh six point seven Light FM.
Good morning, and thanks for listeningto get connected. The Fresh Air Fund
is a New York City institution providingsummer adventures for urban kids through a number
of programs, including free sleepaway campsand their signature Volunteer Host Family program.
(00:27):
The Fresh Air Fund CEO Lisa Gittlesonjoins me and welcome back to the show.
Lisa, Thank you so much.It's a pleasure. You can find
out more about them at fresh airdot org. Last year, the Fresh
Air Fund was finally able to getback to signature programs after the pandemic.
We're going to talk about this year, but how did last year go?
Last year was a great return tothe work that we have traditionally done,
(00:50):
and we're excited to continue to buildon that this summer. It was really
amazing to give those that we servedthe opportunity once again to participate in outdoor
activities, especially after such a longtime when all of us were indoors and
without the social interactions we all reallyneed and want to have in this world.
We keep hearing for all sorts ofthings like vacation bookings. They're huge
(01:11):
this year, flights and hotels becauseof perhaps this pent up demand after the
pandemic. Are you feeling the samefrom city families wanting to get out?
We are, without questions, seeingmany more applicants, certainly than last summer.
I think that's in part due towhat the last few years have looked
like, and also people feeling thatwhile COVID still absolutely exists and then perhaps
(01:32):
all of our lives, we're learninghow to live with it in a different
way, and people are getting readyto participate again in parts of their lives
that had been on hold. Solet's talk about your programs. The Fresh
Air Fund is now registering New YorkCity children for free summer programs at the
sleepaway camps in New York's smid HudsonValley, also visiting volunteer host families along
(01:53):
the East Coast those sleep away camps. You know, I didn't go to
sleepweight camp. One of my sistersdid. I never went. I have
the stories. Everyone who goes seemsto have stories and friends forever. What
is the Fresh Air Camp like?Where is it? And what's going on
there. Great. So we havesix sleep Boy camps. Five of them
are located in Fishkill on a propertycalled Sharpe that we own, and we're
(02:14):
very lucky that somebody made that giftto us. And we have a sixth
camp that is in Harriman State Park, so for those people who know Bear
Mountain, it's in that same parkarea. Our programs are very much like
every sleep Boy camp kind of that'sout there. We have incredible activities.
We have staff that are trained andexcited to work with youth. Kids have
(02:36):
the opportunity to do all kinds ofthings including sports and drama and arts and
crafts. We have a farm thatkids participate in on. I love the
farm. It's one of my favoriteparts. We had this wonderful donor who
quite some time ago gave us aplanetarium and so kids get to go to
the planetarium. We have a lotof nature activities. We have high ropes
(03:00):
and low ropes courses, we havecamp, we have hiking and overnights in
the woods. We have kind ofevery fun thing you kind of want to
imagine in a summer campaign program.You're also hiring summer camp staff, including
camp counselors, program specialists, lifeguards, nurses, and more. Positions are
paid for and include room and boardin addition to those qualifications. What kind
(03:21):
of people are you looking for?So I want to say two things about
that. I'm happy to talk aboutthe qualifications. I myself both was lucky
to go to sleepaway camp for foursummers. But then I worked at sleepaway
camp for four summers, and Ican tell you without question it's the reason
that I do this work. Itshaped me and impacted me in extraordinary ways.
Having the ability to work with youthis what made me want to work
(03:44):
with youth always for the rest ofmy life. So I know that it
is both extraordinarily fun to be acounselor. It's a lot of work,
but it's also fun because it meansduring the summer. And I've also when
I was younger, I did jobsin retail and I did jobs, you
know, in restaurants. Those aregreat because you make some nice money and
you don't get to spend all daywith your peers. One of the wonderful
things about being a counselor at asleepaway camp as you spend the whole summer
(04:08):
with your peers and get to havea lot of wonderful relationships as well.
What are we looking for. We'relooking for people who enjoy youth, who
enjoy being around kids, who wantto have a good fun summer, because
that's what you're going to have.You will work hard and have a lot
of fun and make some nice moneyas well. With all of that,
you've kind of suggested it, butyou know, a lot of the kids
(04:30):
who visit Summer Camp come back yearafter year. The Summer Camp staff they
do year after year as well.About thirty percent of our staff are people
who were once youth with us,so alumni that become our part of our
staff team, which is incredible andwonderful. And you know, it also
means that if you're sending your youthto camp and it might be their first
time, there's going to be staffthere who have experienced it, and that's
(04:50):
very helpful for that kid who mightbe homesick it's their first experience. They
can say I did this too,like when I was jured, I did
this, and here's what it's amazingabout it and give them a lot of
support that way. So it isa free summer camp for participants as part
of the registration. Is there afinancial requirement or threshold for participant families,
(05:12):
You need to be USDA approved.If you are, then you're going to
meet our financial requirement. Our guestis Lisa Gittleson. She's CEO of the
Fresh Air Fund. Their website isfresh air dot org. You're listening to
get connected on one oh six pointseven light FM. I'm Nina del Rio.
Last year, the Fresh Air FundVolunteer host Family program stuck with families
(05:33):
who had participated in the past,and now you're back to looking for first
time volunteer families. Similar thing.In short, how are a host family
screened and what are the minimum requirementsthat's great host family minimum requirements are that
you live for new families, thatyou live within a three hour radius of
New York City, that you haveenough space in your home, that there's
(05:54):
an additional bed. You do notneed an additional bedroom, but there must
be a bed. That's for theyouth that will be staying with you.
And for first time host families,you need to have a child of your
own one or more children of yourown. It can be a two parent
home a single parent home, butyou do need to have a youth of
your own, and then the screeningrequirements. We do run a background check
(06:17):
and after that there will be somebodywho also visits your home, interviews you,
and then those same people are goingto be around for the rest of
the summer to support you. Dotraining, be available for questions, be
available for any type of support thatyou're looking for. I was going to
ask about that because we're in thismoment where everyone is stressed, kids included.
There is advice or counseling available ifyou should need it. As a
(06:41):
host family, we have twenty fourour support for all of our anyone who's
participating with us over the summer.So if you're a host family, or
if you're a family who has sentyour youth to one of our camps or
to our host program, you cancall any time of the day or night
once our program start until the momentit ends, and there will be somebody
to support you in that moment.There's also just kind of general regular support,
(07:03):
especially with regard to the host familiesbecause they're not our employees, so
we're also just kind of available withall different tips and ideas throughout the summer
to support the program. All thestaff at camp are supported in that their
staff, they're supervisors, and alot of support there for them as well.
So regarding space outside of the house, you're an ac county just outside
(07:26):
of New York, you may justhave a regular backyard and that's it.
You might think you don't have enoughgoing on to host. What would you
say and what are some of themore creative and fun things you've seen host
families do without really doing crazy thingswith the kids. So every home has
something of interest, and I wouldwant everybody to know that every relationship that
(07:46):
any of us enter into offers ussomething new and different, and that's just
amazing and wonderful. If you livein somewhere where you have no backyard space,
that's fine as well. Certainly Iknow a families who every night after
dinner go for a walk in theneighborhood. I'm not saying you need to
go hike the Appalachian Trail. Wouldthat stay with you? You know when
the mister Softy truck or the mistergood Humor truck because you're in the suburbec
(08:07):
get good Humor instead of mister Softydrives by, go outside, good nice
cream and you know, sit outsideon on the sidewalk or on the front
steps and eat people, certainly,And we know families who might go to
a local community pool and take thekids to local outdoor community pools. Most
communities have some kind of local parkor playground. I mean, you don't
(08:30):
need to have anything more than thewillingness to create a relationship with a youth
that will come to visit you.If you look at some of the comments
online about people who've been a partof this program New York City families,
some will say, specifically, we'reblack, we live in the South Bronx,
so we live in niches segregated partof Brooklyn, and this is the
first time my child has spent timewith a white family or a family that
(08:52):
doesn't look like theirs. And itmay feel like stating the obvious, but
the experience for both the New YorkCity kids and host families is not necessarily
just about seeing the stars and goingto the town pool. I'm so glad
you brought that up. This issomething that I really really always want to
talk about. It's one of theareas I think sometimes people are a little
bit more challenged to discuss. Weabsolutely want to acknowledge that for the most
(09:15):
part, we're going to be placingyouth into the homes of families that might
be different, and families might havea youth placed in their home that is
also has a different background. Andyou need to be somebody who values this,
who understands why it's important to havediversity in your life, in your
family's life, and that you're respectfulof understanding everybody's place in this relationship is
(09:39):
so valuable, and importantly it's nota one sided thing. That we're all
creating relationships and we all are sharingwho we are with each other, and
that's really where the value I thinkis. I don't mean value like my
NA. I mean value like personalexperience. Like I always kind of joke
that I think I'm pretty good atbeing me. I don't know somebody who's
being me better than me. I'mnot perfect, but I'm really good at
(10:00):
being me. I don't want tobe in a room with a bunch of
other means I already know me.I want to be in a room with
people that are bring something different tothe conversation, to what I know about
the world, all of that,and I really think that's what I hope
for with everybody who participates in ourprograms, whether it's friendly towns or camp
And how much communication. I guessit's up to the parents to some degree,
(10:20):
But how much communication do both setsof parents have, the parents in
the city and the parents they haveas much as they want to, And
we certainly encourage there to be communication. I absolutely know about families who the
two families really become a family together. And sometimes, like I hear about,
like the two families having Thanksgiving together, or you know, when one
(10:41):
family, that out of New YorkCity family comes to the city for a
visit, they spend you know,most of their time with the New York
City family, showing them around,and they're happy to like have like see
part of the world through somebody else'seyes when they've already shared their part of
their world with their youth. Socertainly families have a decent amount of conversation,
and we urge them to have whateverfeels good and right. So we're
(11:03):
talking, Lisa at the beginning ofthe summer season, perhaps the busiest season
for Fresh Air Fund. But oneof the things I know you wanted to
do when you took on this rolea year ago was to try to infuse
more fresh air options into the restof the year. So what did you
envision and how is that going?So what I envisioned, certainly initially because
I have a bigger long term picture, but initially the year round programs that
we already have making sure that theyadded outdoor activities into those programs. And
(11:28):
that's what we have been able todo in the first year that I've been
here. So we have a programcalled Circle of Brotherhood, which is for
youth who have identified as boys whowant to be in a group to have
discussions about what does it mean tobe identified as a boy in this world
and how do you kind of movethrough the world. So they're doing some
(11:48):
outdoor trips as part of that.It doesn't mean every time it's going to
be outdoors, but to have someoutdoor trips. So for all of our
programs, we've kind of added insome outdoor trips. We're talking about some
bigger picture changes that would involve alot more outdoor time year round. Not
ready to roll those out yet,but I would say stay tuned because they're
exciting and I know they're going tobe wonderful and great. I am a
(12:11):
deep believer in we're the Fresh AirFund, and we need to offer fresh
air options. I also believe deeplythat New York City itself is full of
fresh air options. You don't haveto get onto a bus and come to
one of our programs. And mybig goal in what we'll be doing next
is that we will be introducing freshair options to youth that then they don't
(12:33):
need us for So, like,you know, maybe on Saturday we do
an activity at the Harlem Mere andgo fishing, and then on Sunday that
same you could participates calls their friendor their cousin and says, I know
how to do this, Like,let's go do this. So we want
to really like empower youth to ownthe fresh air of New York City and
to make it theirs as well.If you can't be a host family this
(12:54):
year, or you don't have achild that needs to or wants to join
the summer program, how can someonelisten help the Fresh Air Fund? Sure?
So we often have volunteers that participatein different ways, including we have
clean up days at our camp,so sometimes people volunteer to come up and
help, like do some very heavyyardwork or do some other clean up work.
(13:15):
At Camp we have people who functionas tutors and mentors for our youth,
and we're also happy to discuss that. We're also grateful always for any
contributions that people can make economically tohelp us support the work that we do.
You can find out about the freshAir Funds many programs at fresh air
dot org. Lisa Gettleson' CEO hasbeen our guest. Thank you for being
(13:35):
on Get Connected. Thank you somuch, really appreciate it. Thank you
for the wonderful questions. This hasbeen Get Connected with Nina del Rio on
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