  Sunday, September 30, 2012  My Huckleberry Friend - The
Beginning  "We had a great adventure! Didn't even have to try!"
- Huck Finn  I lost my closest and most complicated friend this
year.  Complicated because well, like most people he was full of
contractions, only his contradictions, aggravated by alcohol,
were more extreme than others.  When I met him he was near his
the most of his most down and out, really unrecognizable from
the person he thought he was or wanted to be.  He moved into my
building on the skids, recently released from jail and recently
divorced.  To me he was just another guy, one of the displaced
(misplaced) adults that end up in downtown apartments.  I count
myself among them.  We stand out by the fact that most of our
co-residents are college students, albeit graduate students-
only a few undergrads, in their 20's, so we form a little club
of adults that chatted in the halls.  Warren (Teal to others)
was friendly enough, maybe a little too friendly.  He'd say
inoffensive, but real c