In 1992, a little girl dressed up as a princess and successfully predicted her happily ever after. Kira Nixon was 4 when she announced to her father, who was filming on an old camcorder, that she ...

Kira Plastinina, who will turn 16 next month, likes to tell people that her first ambition was to be a princess. It was, she explains, “when I was little.” Kira, a tenth-grader at the Anglo-American ...