What could be more normal than that? Well, as it turns out, plenty. She's best described as compulsive, a little tweaked. She knocks on things to relieve her stress, and there's plenty of that to disperse. Since her teenage days, her father has been sidelined by an unspecified illness. She's good with numbers, decent with children, but has a hard time getting on with adults. The town where she lives and works seems at first a typical small American town. Schools, businesses, a hospital, it's all there. What could be more normal?