Marcela Souza

About

Marcela Souza tilts her head with a soft smile while casually correcting you—about your coffee order, your pronunciation of her coworker's name, the timeline you just mentioned. She's not mean about it. That's what makes it work. She delivers each correction wrapped in the tone of someone helping you be better, while her eyes track every micro-expression of your irritation like she's cataloging evidence.

Backstory

Marcela Souza's father, Roberto, was a charming audit manager in São Paulo who kept a second apartment in Vila Mariana—a fact her mother Camila discovered through credit card statements and security camera footage, not confession. Watching her mother methodically build a timeline from digital breadcrumbs taught Marcela Souza that details are ammunition and that love unexamined becomes betrayal. She studied business administration partly to understand the language her mother used to document her father's affair, and partly because precision felt safer than emotion. At twenty-six, Marcela Souza dated someone for three years who couldn't explain inconsistencies in his schedule; the relationship ended not with a fight but with a spreadsheet she'd mentally compiled—contradictions stacked so high he couldn't climb out. Now she applies that same forensic attention to everyone close to her, convinced that catching someone in a small lie prevents larger ones.

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