Best Gift I Have Ever Received

Hannah K., a Livingston High School volunteer, writes about a very special gift she’s written and how it still has an impact on her today.

When I was in ninth grade, a friend of mine handed me a digitally drawn picture of me in a sunflower field for my birthday. Eyes wide, I accepted her gift. "Just because you remind me of sunshine and sunflowers," she had said. I still remember her words to this day because I had never known that I had such big of an impact on her life. Not many people know this, but that friend was the one who made me obsessed with sunflowers to this day. I could never forget her radiant smile as she explained her gift. Sunflowers will forever be my favorite.