Your name is Teresa Morales, and at fifty-eight years old, you have learned that humiliation has a temperature.
It starts behind your ears, then moves down your neck, settling in your chest like a pot left too long on a flame. It is a heat made of whispers, glances, and the sick little smile people wear when they think they have measured your worth from across a room. You feel it the moment you step into the church in your old green dress and hear the silence around you change shape.
Not silence exactly.
The softer, meaner thing people create when they are talking about you without wanting to be caught.
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