The quinceañera is another youthful casualty of the coronavirus
LOS ANGELES - If Ashley Soltero had turned 15 in any other year, her quinceanera would have been much, much different.
She wouldn't have waited to announce the May 2 date to her friends, her escorts - chambelanes - wouldn't have been nervous about coming to dance practice, and her mother wouldn't have been laid off in the midst of paying off Ashley's $2,500 charro-style dress.
But it's 2020 and COVID-19 has swept the globe. Now it's a season of lost rituals: prom, grad night, walking across a stage to receive a diploma and, for Latino families in L.A. and beyond, the quinceanera. As unsettling as postponements and cancellations may be for the young, they may be even harder for parents who have invested so much of themselves in their children.
Soltero and her mother,
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