I’d like to talk about my best friend and his name is Alexei. We grew up together in my hometown. I met him for the first time in fifth grade in a middle school when we studied together. He moved to my hometown with his parents so we started to study together. When I first met him I understood clearly that he will become my best friend because he was the most interesting person in our class. He knew so many things which were weird for others. For example, he had music records of all modern rock music for this time. It was rare for such time because we did not have internet. Also he could speak German. It was also rare for my hometown. Actually I did not remember any person who spoke German these times. We started to be friends. We did many things together. The most important thing for us was listening to music. We were fans of rock music. We visited many rock shows. We dreamed to become rock stars. It was a really nice time for me. It was a use, rock and roll. It was a romantic time. After some time when I finished school I was enrolled in university. His parents did not have much money and time to promote music.
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I'd like to talk about my best friend, and his name is Alexei. We grew up together in my hometown. I met him for the first time in fifth grade in middle school when we studied together. He moved to my hometown with his parents, so we started to study together. When I first met him, I understood clearly that he would become my best friend because he was the most interesting person in our class. He knew so many things that were unusual for others. For example, he had music records of all the modern rock music of that time. It was rare back then because we did not have the internet. Also, he could speak German, which was also rare for my hometown. I actually did not remember anyone who spoke German at that time. We became friends and did many things together. The most important thing for us was listening to music. We were fans of rock music and visited many rock shows. We dreamed of becoming rock stars. It was a really nice time for me, full of rock and roll. It was a romantic time. After some time, when I finished school, I was enrolled in university. His parents did not have much money or time to promote his music.
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