High fit

Storage is about how much you hold onto — pain, experiences, emotions — and whether that storage is overloaded. Betty had been holding an enormous amount for decades: abuse, violence, poverty, grief, all of it compressed and kept out of sight. Her system was full. The Dolly Parton song didn't empty it, but it gave some of that stored pain a place to move — out through tears, out through the words 'it's hurtful when people make fun of you.' That release, small as it was, was significant because it happened so rarely.