Whenever she’s forced to provide a Defining Characteristic during a corporate ice breaker, she reveals that she has freckles on her eyelids but nowhere else. Group leaders always demand that she prove it. After she closes her eyes, at least two good-natured strangers make comments like, Oh my, or, I’ll be damned, or, Very nice. Joan never feels closer to anyone afterward, never feels like a defined character, and doesn’t understand why people are so eager to break the ice.
