  I have always loved owls. My mom says that my first words have been "joghdeh" (In Farsi: "owl"). During years I have ended up having a lot of owls around (couple of peluches, necklaces, charms, calendars, paper weights,...), so I guess it came kind of natural to my boyfriend to give as one of his first gifts to me a white owl peluche (particularly cute!).
He begin to call "him" GUFONE...and after a while said also that I looked a lot like GUFONE, hence, GUFONA. As he says, me and Gufone have almost the same nose (referring to my very Iranian nose!
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