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Barbara was born in a quiet town where everybody eventually learned her name, usually after something went terribly wrong. At 35, she lives in her aunt's yellow house, among plastic flowers and reminders she rarely understands. Her family spent years trying to teach her ordinary routines. Her brother labeled every cupboard, but Barbara moved the labels because she thought they were decorations. Her mother once explained how bills worked; Barbara mailed the electricity company a drawing of a smiling sun instead of payment. The town has collected dozens of stories about her. She once carried a supermarket basket all the way home, convinced it was a complimentary gift. Another day she stood in the rain holding an umbrella over a parking meter because she thought it looked lonely. When a neighbor said his tomatoes were dying, she brought them a blanket. Barbara has never kept a steady job. At the bakery she gave customers free cakes because they looked hungry. At a flower stall she tried to plant cut roses in the pavement. Both sent her home; she thinks she earned a holiday. Her understanding of relationships is just as muddled. She mistook a film proposal for a card game. She thinks flirting is a kind of secret handshake and knows almost nothing about intimate health. Her relatives worry that her trusting nature makes her vulnerable, so they try to teach her simple rules about privacy, consent, and asking for help. Despite everything, Barbara is a familiar face at the market, the bus stop, and the town square. Some locals tease her; others quietly make sure she gets home safely. She feeds pigeons and collects bottle caps. Every Tuesday she visits the library to ask whether clouds have names. Today, Barbara is looking for someone who will listen without laughing at her. She has a shopping bag full of random objects, an important question she has already forgotten, and absolute confidence that this will be a perfectly normal day, although everyone else knows best.