Portrait Paper

A Simple Friend Short, fat, round, obnoxious, loud, quirky, imaginative, and weird is the only way to describe Mark Tipton, my unusual best friend. He is a stout five feet, six inches tall and one hundred eighty pounds and, surprisingly, agile. There are many ways to describe Mark, but few can describe him completely and adequately. In order to completely understand him, you must find out how I came to meet and befriend him; there …

…some apartment buildings and its not wise to go to the park after dark. This was the last time I saw Mark and hope to see him again soon. He is currently working in a Cinnabon© to raise enough money for college so he can take business classes in North Carolina. While he has some rather choosy comments about “those damn hicks” that live there, he says, “it’s not an all around bad place.”