" I asked him if he would be my pen pal. He said yes."

This has been all over the web today, but it's pretty awesome and deserves repeating.

It's the tale of a girl in 1985 who writes John Hughes to tell him what his movie meant to her, and they become correspondents. 

We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes

The story shows that he was just as awesome as you'd want him to be, and further, it gives me a new life goal... try to be the type of person who inspires a touching eulogy for someone outside my immediate circle of friends and family