Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia (栀子花) was sent to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper.

I couldn't stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments werespent daydreaming(幻想 )about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.

    A month before my high school graduation(毕业), my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance, and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss (过) any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.

    My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.

Hi，HanLi，

    got some good news to tell you．One of our old friends，Zhao Yan，is going to visit us at the weekend．Do you remember her?She has a round face and two big eyes．She lives with her parents in Tianjin and is coming to see us．Lisa is her English name．I've got two photos of Zhao Yan. In one photo，she is playing basketball．That' my favourite sport.In the other one,she is drinking pear juice.It is her favourite.

    Let's have a picnic near a lake on Saturday．Of course，we can go boating too．Maybe you'd like to swim in it．Remember to catch the fish when you see them in the water．I'm going to meet Zhao Yan at the airport on Saturday morning．And we can meet near the lake at about eleven o'clock．You may come by bus．Remember to get off the bus at Lake Stop．

Yours，

WuTong

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    My friend is Li Ming. He was born on September 20th, 2003, in Beijing. Now he is studying in London. He's in Class 1 with 8 students. They're from America, France and Japan. His teacher's name is Mike Brown. He's a very nice and very good teacher.

    Li Ming is living with an English family. Mr. and Mrs. Green have three children. Tom is fifteen, Kate is twelve, and Andrew is eight. They are all very friendly.

London is a very large and interesting city. The weather there is good—-sunny but cool, and the parks are beautiful! Li Ming loves living in London very much. He thinks English food is great, too. He likes traditional dishes like fish and chips.

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What an interesting story!