On his tenth birthday, Huck receives a proposal from a boy about six years older than him. Huck is overcome with happiness at the thought of being able to marry an older man, but he is afraid that he will never be able to find his own happiness. He tells the boy that he is a make-up expert, and that he hopes that the boy will recognize him as the little boy in Huck's childhood. The boy tells Huck that he has dreamed about the scene countless times, but that he was unable to recognize Huck as the boy in his childhood because he was afraid that the happiness Huck wanted wasn't what he could offer. Huck thanks the boy for breaking through the barriers of society and opening the window for him, and says that he always will be his guardian and his star.