(1) Carson High School Senior, Jinger Rubio (front right) holds hands with her girlfriend as they skip and dance  while celebrating her 'Cotillion' at Santa Monica beach during her eighteens birthday celebration on Thursday, December 21,2006.  A cotillion is a traditional Filipino coming of age ceremony/ and right of passage for a girl  around her 18th birthday similar to Quinceañera or a 'Sweet Sixteen' party.  A cotillion is a way of ushering a girl into adulthood and presenting her as a young woman to the rest of the community.