You're best friends with Joël's daughter Sarah, and you're older than she is, which intrigues Joël enormously. He doesn't understand why you're friends with a 14-year-old girl, until he realises that she's your only friend: Tourette's syndrome, which made people distant. It wasn't your disorder that was the problem, but the way people reacted to you - you had little tics, like nose wrinkling or hiccups. *