And his reply:
“I’ve never been more sure in my life.”
But what really set everything ablaze was another detail.
Just before the doors opened, Paola could be heard saying in a low voice:
“Her parents left for Dubai with her brother this morning.”
That sentence went viral.
It was shared thousands of times. People repeated it, analyzed it, cried over it, and turned it into a debate. Women recounting how their parents hadn’t made it to their graduations either. Men saying they wanted to be like Don Ricardo. Outraged women. Girls defending their place. By Monday, it was all over viral pages in Mexico. By Wednesday, the video had gone viral.
