A Present?

I think that my most valued present is a plant fossil that my best friend gave me for my 19° birthday! Its was awesome! Really, since I am a big fossil fan ( actually I could have studied Archeology or Paleontology if it were possible, but here in Chile those fields aren't developed at all) and I have only had a couple of fossils that I found in my College trips. So obviously I was pleased. Plus since it was my best friend, and well, he knows me well enough to know what I like, because really almost nobody know my tastes. Go figure.

 Well, that is the fossil in question ( not really, in the image its only a look-alike I found in google, mine is a bit low quality compared to this one). A fossilied plant of inmemoriable ages ago... Its like a testimony of the changes that have happened in the earth, and the real wonder for me is the fact that something so easy to break , to make dissapear, and it is still there, preserved in stone, like a dried flower in a  book. But well, enough rambling, this was one of the most important presents I have been gifted. Not costly, not fancy, but really, really important. It makes a fine collection with my others fossil I have found ( a amonite and a seashell). I figured that had to take of it better that the others so it passes most of the time in a box in my room, with the other fossils.