"Because they're people." That's one thing she's learned from living in two centuries. There are just always going to be people who are petty and nosy, who have to know everyone's business because their own lives are simply so boring that they have to bother others. It's sort of reassuring in its annoying mundanity.

"They don't understand two boys kissing or a girl who wants a metal ring through her nose. But we still exist. So there."