Sounds like an interesting character already.

 "A great many people avoided her, ran away from her."

Project Gutenberg Central copy of Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey.

"'Innocence’ by Harold Brodkey"

https://apersonalanthology.com/2023/01/13/innocence-by-harold-brodkey/

I guess this is the more mutilated version of the story, which doesn't include that line, and many others.

"In Which It Gets Your Body Moving - Home - This Recording"

http://thisrecording.squarespace.com/today/2009/5/14/in-which-it-gets-your-body-moving.html;jsessionid=9299391548C81E3AFC6F0F8BE53F7132.v5-web004