So I like to tell you about a important friend of mine. You can call him my best friend. Like, like, one of the many few friends that I have. So we met at secondary school. So a lot was quite a long time ago around 6 or 7 years by now. First, we did not talk to each other. As I was a shy person, and I did not try to communicate with many of my classmates. It was not until, like, um, when I was in 8th grade, uh, we got to talk to each other for the first time. So that was quite a long time, like 3 years before like, I got to talk to him. But when I did, I found out that we have many incumbents. Like, we like anime. We like playing games. Like, these two characteristics are pretty much some, uh, any boys, my age back then good to have. That he does also have some kind of characteristic that is like me, like being shy on somewhat afraid of trying new things. So we got to, like, get close to each other, like, after a while. And as we are close, like even by now, we see right next to each other in the class. We know as we know each other more. He has become quite a kind of a incentive for me to try for the better. Like, the way that he is inspiring me is from, like, as I said, we had many comments and So I want to set a good example for him. Like, a person not a similar to him in many ways. Can do something and so he can also achieve that as well as well. Um, so has presence has helped me to achieve many thing that I did not think that I could like, ever do in my life. So it’s really important to me.
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So I'd like to tell you about an important friend of mine. You could call him my best friend, one of the very few friends that I have. We met at secondary school, which was quite a long time ago, around 6 or 7 years now. At first, we did not talk to each other much. I was a shy person and didn't try to communicate with many of my classmates. It wasn't until 8th grade that we started talking to each other for the first time, which was about 3 years after we first met. When we did start talking, I discovered that we had many things in common. We both liked anime and playing games, which were characteristics that many boys our age back then had. He also had some similarities to me, like being shy and somewhat afraid of trying new things. Over time, we got closer to each other, and even now, we sit right next to each other in class. As we got to know each other better, he became an inspiration for me to strive for the better. His presence motivated me to set a good example for him, showing that someone not entirely similar to him in many ways can achieve things, and he can do the same. His influence has helped me accomplish things that I never thought I could do in my life. He is really important to me.
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