Julia Alvarez's Once Upon a Quinceañera.by Liza Mundy, Slate Magazine on Aug 23, 2007In the time and place where I grew up—the outskirts of Appalachia, in the late 1970s—girls didn't have coming-out parties. It was not that kind of culture or era; we distrusted any event to which we could not wear Levi's. The closest thing I can remember is a party a group of us held our senior year, the salient feature of which was a line of beer kegs. To the extent that we were commemorating anything, it was the arrival at legal drinking age.
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