Lali Juárez was 18 and home alone when the fire climbed up her clothes.
It was February 25, 2010, just a few days before the start of her final year of high school and the senior trip to Bariloche. Her dad had gone to work, and her mom had gone to the hair salon.
As she recounted, she got up to make herself some tea, and the flames climbed up her sleeve. She spent three months in the hospital, some of that time isolated in intensive care, with burns from her chest upward that reached her neck and arms.
For years, she hid, convinced that her life had ended that day. Until she started getting tattoos right over her scars. That was when, she says, she finally felt whole.
Today, at 28, she is about to graduate with a degree in Criminalistics and no longer feels pain about showing her body. And when people ask if she would go back to being the person she was before the accident, her answer is no.