Let X be a quasinormed rearrangement invariant function space on (0, 1) which contains L_q(0, 1) for some finite q. There is an extension of X to a quasinormed rearrangement invariant function space Y on (0, \infty) so that for any sequence (f_i)^\infty_{i = 1} of symmetric random variables on (0,1), the quasinorm of \sum f_i in X is equivalent to the quasinorm of \sum\mathbf{f}_i in Y, where (\mathbf{f}_i)^\infty_{i = 1} is a sequence of disjoint functions on (0, \infty) such that for each i, \mathbf{f}_i has the same decreasing rearrangement as f_i. When specialized to the case X = L_q(0, 1), this result gives new information on the quantitative local structure of L_q.