Just so it's clear (in case you didn't get to the bottom because it seemed too messed up), NO "Hymn of the Pearl" was not something I wrote, having totally lost my marbles at 4am. It's just a poem I read and really liked and sort of identified with, so I took it and made some VERY small changes (mostly references to "mother" I kept, and "father" I either changed to "mother" or "family"). That's about it :) Read it, though, it's good.