Huckleberry Friend

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So?
What do you think?
From now on I will call you with the nick, ok?

Finally, after all this time, I find out the meaning of the two words. According an online dictionary, they mean a friend that we've known since were kids, who have always been there by our side until we grow up, who loves us no matter what.

Doesn't that sound like you?

Yes, I think so. You always love me no matter what, right? No matter how silly and stupid I have been? Well, I'm sure you do; that's what I feel. If I know you don't love me, I have long ago broken our friendship.

Well, whatever, from now on I will call you with the nick. Huckleberry friend, my Huckleberry friend.

Besides, wasn't it you introducing Huckleberry Finn to me? You gave me the book on my 15th birthday.

By the way, in relation to this Huckleberry stuff, I have a deep buried secret that I will tell you about right now. The secret is...actually I only really read the book a year after you gave it to me. To be honest, you picked a book with so awful cover that I lost an interest to read it. I had again and again tried to start reading the book, but again and again I became discouraged after seeing the very awful cover and very small, crowded letters of English words in such thick book.

However, in the end, after finding no other book to read and having no money to buy the new ones, I began to open that book you had given me.

And you know what? Now Huckleberry Finn is nothing but the best book I've ever read! I'm sorry I never listened when you told me what a good book it was. You know, I tend to dislike things that others have earlier claimed as their favorites. A complicated psychology; I don't understand how I can develop such thing. I don't like having same likenesses with other people, especially if they are most people's favorite, that's why I rarely like hit singles. Even if I finally like the songs, that will be after people get bored of them. The point is, I like being different from anybody.

However, this time I will really tell you the truth: I indeed love Huckleberry Finn so badly, as much as you love it.

You're right. Mark Twain is one of the best writers of all times!

And I think the story of Huck and that niger Jim really does resemble the story of you and me. I don't know who Huck and who Jim are between us, but aren't we crossing our own Moon River now? Let's just think that the moon river in that Moon River song is indeed the Mississippi River. We are crossing it with a canoe that we're paddling together toward the land of our both dreams (which is of course not the New Orleans).

By the way, as I call you Huck, does that mean that I am Jim? Nah, I think we better become Huck for each other, what do you think?

So, Huck 1, let's end our talk here. I still have a lot of work to do. Always wish you good luck!

Yours,