Sadly true, but maybe the next round won't be so awful. I don't know about normal... Things have been pretty strange here, too, but not the OC kind of strange.
Sort of. I was adopted when I was a baby, and when I got older I tried to track down my birth parents, but they'd both passed. Their friends used to come and clean their tombs, but a few years ago I went to go help and found no one had been. So, I've been coming ever since.