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PITTSFIELD — Jahaira DeAlto Balenciaga spent just a few short years in Pittsfield, but she didn’t need long to make her impact in the community.
“When she showed up into a room, you knew that she was there,” Kelan O’Brien, a friend of DeAlto’s and an organizer for Berkshire Pride, said at a Saturday evening vigil for DeAlto, 42, who died last Sunday in a violent attack at her Boston apartment.
“She was loud in the best type of way, she loved unconditionally, she welcomed everybody into her chosen family, into her community and we can see that here tonight,” O’Brien said to more than 100 people who gathered in Pittsfield’s Pontoosuc Park. ....

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