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Karen Vela Lima celebrates her Quinceañera in Bowling Green. This cultural celebration symbolizes the transition from childhood to womanhood. “It means that I’m a girl coming of age and I’m not the little girl that I used to be,” Vela Lima said. “I’m becoming a woman now.”