735-word version:
Have you ever tried to be a friend to a lonely hedgehog? It is your decision to make, but once you have decided to do so, you should be warned that you are opting to be pricked by its thorns. It would be painful. Yet you might get a precious life lesson: do not ever befriend it again, or befriend it, accept it for what it is, and stick to your decision until the end for going back on your decision midway would always leave your wondering "What if?"

During the commencement of 중학교명 Middle School, I met 친구이름, who I had not seen since I moved in the second year of elementary school...

933-word version:
Have you ever tried to be a friend to a lonely hedgehog? It is your decision to make, but once you have decided to do so, you should be warned that you are opting to be pricked by its thorns. It would be painful. Yet you might get a precious life lesson: do not ever befriend it again, or befriend it, accept it for what it is, and stick to your decision until the end for going back on your decision midway would always leave your wondering "What if?"

It was a sunny, but yet chilly day in March. I was standing in the ninth row of the freshmen class during the commencement of 중학교명 Middle School. Two hundred and fifty pairs of both anxious and nervous eyes were trying to assess their new environment while principal gave a long, boring speech on his amplified microphone...