The original obituary contained no obvious lie. That was precisely the problem: every conflict had been polished away, every responsible person had vanished from the sentence, and what remained was a life everyone could accept but no one had actually lived. Inés had called that restraint. Lucía asked only one question: who, exactly, are you protecting?
Years later, the paper published its first full correction under an editor's name. Inés did not leave the office, and she did not turn staying into a heroic story. Her manuscript, Corrections Are Not Footnotes, still stops at its hardest chapter: how to admit a wrong without making the admission another performance about oneself.