I took a weekend from my sophomore year at JMU to see her graduate college.......public accounting school...........my female professor asked me why I wanted to take the exam earlier...........I told her b/c my fiancé was graduating college...................................she looked at me very oddly.........b/c I have a baby face............and I am 5' 7"..........I am not tall, dark and handsome...........so everyone thinks I am a little boy............and treats as such........esp. Blacks.......who complain about being discriminated b/c of the color of their skin........which is looks discrimination and then they discriminate against me........b/c I have a baby face..................so they think I am a wimp or something..........then DO something.......................................u fucking people have ruined my life forever...............and I do mean Black people............u fucking backstabbing, cowardly, whores..............

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Steinbeck began writing the story as a movie script^[3] in 1944, and first published it as a short story called "The Pearl of the World" in Woman's Home Companion in December 1945.^[4] The original publication is also sometimes listed as "The Pearl of La Paz".^[5] He expanded it to novella length and published it under the name The Pearl by Viking Press in 1947.^[4] As he was writing the novella version, he was frequently travelling to Mexico where the film version,^[6] co-written with Jack Wagner,^[4] was being filmed. The film was also released by RKO in 1947 as a co-promotion with the book.^[6]
The Pearl was loosely adapted in 2001 for a film directed by Alfredo Zacharias and starring Lukas Haas and Richard Harris which was released directly to video in 2005.^[4]