LIFE FAM-CNS-QUINCEANERA 2 MIDownloadPhotos Live1383 x 738 Color JPEGRelated media: 
Miriam Rodriguez, now 66, stands with her mother, Balbino Espino, left, and her dad during her 15th birthday in Havana, Cuba in 1962. (Courtesy Miriam Rodriguez via Miami Herald/MCT)
LIFE FAM-CNS-QUINCEANERA 1 MIDownloadPhotos Live1056 x 1410 Color JPEGRelated media: Maria Chouza, now 37, wore a white dress for a quinceanera photography session and went on a cruise. (Courtesy of Maria Chouza via Miami Herald/MCT)
LIFE FAM-CNS-QUINCEANERA 5 MIDownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2112 Color JPEGRelated media: Samantha Chouza, left, holds her quinces dress with her mother Maria Chouza, right, and grandmother Miriam Rodriguez, May 3, 2013, in Miami, Florida. (Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald/MCT)
LIFE FAM-CNS-QUINCEANERA 4 MIDownloadPhotos Live1913 x 2700 Color JPEGRelated media: Samantha Chouza, (center in the red quinces dress) with her mother Maria Chouza, left, and grandmother Miriam Rodriguez, May 3 2013, in Miami, Florida. (Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald/MCT)
LIFE FAM-CNS-QUINCEANERA 3 MIDownloadPhotos Live1380 x 1089 Color JPEGRelated media: Balbina Espino, now 93, said she remembers spending two weeks making her own quinceanera dress in Havana for her birthday in 1935. (Courtesy Balbino Espino via Miami Herald/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 7 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2000 Color JPEGRelated media: Since 1992, American couples have adopted over 400 orphans from Russia's St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13 (a green three-storey building across the canal) alone. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 6 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2009 Color JPEGRelated media: Orphans with serious mental diseases are taken good care of at Russia's St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 5 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2004 Color JPEGRelated media: Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured December 20, 2012, in Moscow, said that he intends to sign the so called anti-Magnitsky law which will prohibit Russian orphans to be adopted by U.S. families. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 4 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 1999 Color JPEGRelated media: Chief Doctor Natalia Nikiforova shows the Nagels family album she had to finally take away from Timofey, a resident of Baby Home No. 13 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 3 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2000 Color JPEGRelated media: Lunch time at St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13. Here, Timofey, front, has enjoyed his soup, September 21, 2012. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 2 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2205 Color JPEGRelated media: A nurse at St. Petersburg Baby Home No. 13 is trying to comfort Nicolas, a two-year-old boy with Butterfly Syndrome, September 21, 2012. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
WORLD NEWS RUSSIA-ADOPTIONS 1 LADownloadPhotos Live3000 x 2000 Color JPEGRelated media: Yana, a resident at St. Petersburg Baby Home No.13, has narrowly missed her chance to be adopted by a U.S. couple. The Kremlin legislation banned adoption. (Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
