Alan, " cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:–and now I like ye better!

Robert Louis Stevenson
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The first time I met Alan was when I was 15 years old. He was my very best friend. We were close, he helped me with everything. One day, my parents were discussing how they felt about me having a crush on Alan, which is important because they didn't approve of boys.

My father went on to say that if it were girls I liked, he would have no problem with that, but that I should forget about Alan because he wasn't good enough for me. While my dad was talking, my mother walked over to me and said "Alan is a very nice boy." I had never seen her before in my life. As soon as she said Alan's name, she looked at me with a very serious face and added "You are the only girl in the world who can see what's right with him."

Source: Kidnapped By Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure

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