I will try to give you coherent and substantive feedback at some point, because Christ knows you deserve it. But it's Sunday night, and I've been working all day, and there are two or three things in this story that cut very close to the bone for me, and so now is not coherent-and-substantive-feedback time. Now is "thank you for writing this and I have saved it to my favorite stories file" time.
Re: to clarify: