In Hawai‘i, lei are made with fragrant flowers, ti or spicy maile leaves, shells, seeds and nuts, feathers, dollar bills, or candy. And they might be piled around a student’s neck up to his or her ...

Her sister-in-law adorned her with a lei bearing Lopez’s name, graduation year, and two origami butterflies made out of dollar bills that took her two hours to make. Receiving the lei was more ...

Her sister-in-law adorned her with a lei bearing Lopez’s name, graduation year, and two origami butterflies made out of dollar bills that took her two hours to make. Receiving the lei was more than a ...