You may receive many gifts in your life but there is always one you will remember forever. This is a Gunpla. Its full name is Gundam Plastic Model. It was a birthday gift from my best friend, Zixin Zhang, after I came to the U.S. I am in America and my friend is in China. It was very difficult for him, but he still managed to send it to me. We have been friends for almost 22 years, since kindergarten. We didn't go to the same elementary school, but he happened to move across the street from me. We often played various games together after school or on the weekend in the open space near the apartment. We were in the same junior and senior high school so we often went to school together, and sometimes played video games together. Once we rode our bicycles from our city to another city for almost 12 hours. We had known each other for more than 10 years by then but on this trip together, we discovered our mothers had also been friends when they were young. He was not good at studying but he has all kinds of knowledge, and I think he knows how to respect and care for others. Now every time I look at the Gunpla he sent me, I think our friendship will not change due to time or distance. It is not the most expensive gift I ever received, but it is a very important gift to me. 

– Shiping Zhang

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