Well here I’d like to talk about something that surprised me and made me happy. And that was an iPhone which was gifted by my brother on my 18th birthday. So it was two months ago I was going to my school and I was upset because the last night was my birthday and no one in my family wished me on my birthday. So I felt so upset and went for my school. After coming back to my school I found out that my family has organized a grand party for my birthday and they decorated our whole room very nicely. And seeing this I was very excited and very delighted that my parents and my friends did not forget about my birthday. And I was so happy and then the party began. We enjoyed a lot and we had so much fun. But the twist in the last time because everyone was giving me a gift except my brother. I was thinking that he did not bring any gift for me but he surprised me by giving a gift box. I was very shocked because I don’t know what in it. After opening the box I found an iPhone on it which I wanted to buy in my life because all of my friends had an iPhone in their life. And they showed me their phone and I was so interested in buying this phone. But my parents did not let me to buy phone because they told me that using phone in your student life will waste your time. But I found this phone on my birthday and I was over the moon after seeing this gift.
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Well, here I'd like to talk about something that surprised me and made me happy. That was an iPhone, which was gifted by my brother on my 18th birthday. Two months ago, I was going to school and I was upset because the night before was my birthday, and no one in my family wished me a happy birthday. I felt so upset and went to school. After coming back from school, I found out that my family had organized a grand party for my birthday and decorated our whole room very nicely. Seeing this, I was very excited and delighted that my parents and my friends had not forgotten about my birthday. I was so happy, and then the party began. We enjoyed a lot and had so much fun. But there was a twist at the end because everyone was giving me gifts except my brother. I thought he had not brought any gift for me, but he surprised me by giving me a gift box. I was very shocked because I didn't know what was in it. After opening the box, I found an iPhone, which I had wanted to buy for a long time because all of my friends had iPhones. They showed me their phones, and I was so interested in getting one. However, my parents did not let me buy a phone because they told me that using a phone during my student life would waste my time. But I found this phone on my birthday, and I was over the moon after seeing this gift.
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