Far from home, Latinas throw quinceañeras as they’d never be at home

The World | Sep 8, 2015
There's a new wave of Latino girls in the US rethinking the traditional quinceañera. The celebration marking a girl's 15th birthday is being remade big, celebrating not just a birthday, but also cultural heritage in ways that no girl actually in Mexico would dream up.

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