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As part of her quinceanera, Lopez recalled, Brenda
passed along a doll to Annaa Laura, signifying that the elder sister was leaving behind childhood and handing off a tradition to her sister. That doll today is kept in a chest for the day Annaa Laura gives it to one of her relatives or even her own daughter on the occasion of that girl’s quinceanera.
Brenda and Annaa Laura, in turn, inherited the
quinceanera tradition from their mother. Lopez, today a counselor who works with special educa-
tion students in the five elementary schools in the Crane School District, marked her own coming of age with the traditional service and a reception at what was then the Stardust hotel at 4th Avenue and 24th Street. The quinceanera not only brought together her friends and family in Yuma but relatives from Mexico.
“It was a beautiful experience,” Lopez recalled, “and
that’s why I wanted my daughters to have the same expe- rience.”
But there was a condition: The underlying values that
the Lopezes sought to instill in their daughters – those of service to God, family and community – would not be lost amid the glitz and glitter and music of the celebration that followed.
“You’re graduating your kids,” said Lopez. “You’re teach-
ing them the values they might not learn in school. You’re teaching them to be productive members of their commu- nities.”
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