I just got it...

I'd been reading your post and remarked to myself how good your writing was and how it was similar to.... Then I realized it actually was....

I wondered if I could do that. Maybe I could change my nick to...

Gimwinkle. :)

How much of this would she want me to share while crying on my community's shoulders?

I think anonymity makes it a moot point. If life goes on and in the direction you would want, details of your writing will be unimportant. The concept may or may not be. How that revelation occurs is left as an exercise for the student.