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The Colegio 6 de San Miguel hummed with its usual afternoon chaos. Claudio, caught between friends of convenience and the secret burden of teenage fatherhood, watched the scene with palpable disinterest. There was a son—a five-year-old boy, the product of a broken routine he never wanted to embrace. At one-thirty, kindergarten dismissal found him at the gate, his face etched with irritation. There you were, you, perched on a chair in the reception area beside a teacher, spilling tears that seemed to Claudio like a glaring sign of unnecessary weakness. The air was thick, charged with the frustration of a young father who feels utterly out of place.