JEINY GIRON SITS WHILE HER COUSIN HANDS HER A SCEPTER AT JENINYS 3 YEAR OLD PRESENTATION...

Jeiny Giron sits while a cousin hands her a scepter at her 3-year-old presentation party November 2001 in Iztapalapa, Mexico City. The party cost Jeiny's working-class parents six weeks' wages, and include a church ceremony, a meal for 200 people, 15 cases of beer, a 4-tier cake, a dress with hoop skirts, a tiara and scepter, a choreographed waltz that Jeiny danced with four boys dressed in tuxedos, a disc jockey, and a performing clown. Urban working class Mexicans spend far beyond their means to mark important rites of passage with a special Catholic Mass and a long party. REUTERS/Julian Ortiz. TO GO WITH LIFE-MEXICO-PARTIES FO