China, I really do both sympathise with you, and admire you, for not being a normal run of the mill person, but somebody who can be tortured by the sudden need to know something that is, to lesser mortals at least, obscure. This, coupled with your femininity and passion for shoes provides yet another piece of the jigsaw, and helps me to build up a picture of what you are really like.
As I said about a thousand posts ago, I do wish you would put one of your poems on here for us to read. And if it is introspective, then so much the better.
You and Naomi either live in London or within spitting distance of it, and that is just too good an opportunity to miss. You both must get together and meet over a plate of scoff in the local greasy spoon, or over a drink, and report back on your expectations / surprises on meeting up, and if Mibs lives down there as well, you might take him along also.
It is now 4 weeks since I had a cigarette, but my weight goes onwards and upwards. Oh dearie me!