diff --git a/components/sections/Dolores.tsx b/components/sections/Dolores.tsx
index 2b001ca..517805a 100644
--- a/components/sections/Dolores.tsx
+++ b/components/sections/Dolores.tsx
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 import { motion } from 'framer-motion';
 import { Container } from '@/components/primitives/Container';
 import { IlustracionNudo } from '@/components/primitives/IlustracionNudo';
+import { TextoDesenfoque } from '@/components/primitives/TextoDesenfoque';
 import { dolores } from '@/lib/content';
-import { fadeInUp, staggerContainer, viewportOnce, usePrefersReducedMotion, motionProps } from '@/lib/motion';
+import { fadeInUp, viewportOnce, usePrefersReducedMotion, motionProps } from '@/lib/motion';
 
 // The four quotes are the client's own words, from slide 3 of the dueña's deck.
 //
@@ -39,18 +40,24 @@ export function Dolores() {
         <motion.h2 variants={fadeInUp} initial="hidden" whileInView="visible" viewport={viewportOnce} {...motionProps(reduced)}
           className="mt-4 font-sans font-black text-seccion text-azul-profundo max-w-3xl">{dolores.title}</motion.h2>
 
-        <motion.ul variants={staggerContainer} initial="hidden" whileInView="visible" viewport={viewportOnce} {...motionProps(reduced)}
-          className="mt-14 flex flex-col gap-9 md:gap-12 list-none p-0">
+        {/* No stagger on the list. A container stagger fires all four the moment
+            the section is 30% on screen, and the section is 1.200px tall — the
+            reader would watch every sentence appear long before scrolling to
+            it, which is not what "se apilan al bajar" means. TextoDesenfoque
+            carries its own observer, so each quote waits for its own arrival
+            and then resolves out of blur, word by word: the pain coming into
+            focus. Same device as the hero and the anchor phrase. */}
+        <ul className="mt-14 flex flex-col gap-9 md:gap-12 list-none p-0">
           {dolores.quotes.map((quote, i) => (
-            <motion.li key={quote} variants={fadeInUp} className={`max-w-3xl ${SANGRIAS[i]}`}>
+            <li key={quote} className={`max-w-3xl ${SANGRIAS[i]}`}>
               <blockquote className="font-sans italic font-bold leading-snug text-azul-profundo text-2xl md:text-4xl lg:text-[2.6rem]">
                 <span className="not-italic text-dorado">“</span>
-                {quote}
+                <TextoDesenfoque segments={[{ text: quote }]} delayMs={38} />
                 <span className="not-italic text-dorado">”</span>
               </blockquote>
-            </motion.li>
+            </li>
           ))}
-        </motion.ul>
+        </ul>
 
         {/* Flush left and still, against four sentences that are not. */}
         <motion.p variants={fadeInUp} initial="hidden" whileInView="visible" viewport={viewportOnce} {...motionProps(reduced)}
diff --git a/components/sections/__tests__/Dolores.test.tsx b/components/sections/__tests__/Dolores.test.tsx
index 07da90f..54ad405 100644
--- a/components/sections/__tests__/Dolores.test.tsx
+++ b/components/sections/__tests__/Dolores.test.tsx
@@ -5,9 +5,16 @@ import { dolores } from '@/lib/content';
 
 describe('<Dolores />', () => {
   it('renders the four pains verbatim, in the client\'s first person', () => {
-    render(<Dolores />);
+    const { container } = render(<Dolores />);
+    // The quotes resolve word by word, so each word is its own span and no
+    // single element holds the whole sentence as its own text — getByText
+    // would never find it. The blockquote's textContent is what the reader
+    // ends up with, and that is what has to be verbatim.
+    const citas = Array.from(container.querySelectorAll('blockquote')).map((b) =>
+      (b.textContent ?? '').replace(/\s+/g, ' '),
+    );
     for (const dolor of dolores.quotes) {
-      expect(screen.getAllByText(new RegExp(dolor.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'))).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(citas.some((c) => c.includes(dolor))).toBe(true);
     }
   });