Before the Great Change, there had been the concept of an "old soul"--a young person who seemed wise and compassionate beyond their years. The Great Change had made that concept literal, as people with many decades of wisdom and experience were now running around in the bodies of hot twenty-two year olds.
Teresa Menendez was one such. The matriarch of four generations of a Mexican-American family, literally on the respirator when the second wave of the Great Change hit and gave her a whole new life. Gratitude for her second chance at life was one reason why Teresa, whatever hijinks she had gotten up to during the week, never missed Sunday Mass. But she wasn't only grateful for her second chance--being part of a conservative family meant that she had been unable to explore her attraction to women in her first life. and now she, along with the rest of the world, was plunging into it.
But the hot, flirty girl had the soul of a wise abuela, and she could tell when someone was hurting. Back in Robbie's apartment, she reached out to Robbie in a way that even Robbie recognized as non-sexual.
"Sit right here next to me" said Teresa "And tell Momma all about it."