I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.
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A. maturity
B. guilt
C. shame
D. confusion
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The word that most closely describes what the narrator is feeling in paragraph 22 is A. maturity.
The narrator expresses a desire to be older and to escape the current moment of turning eleven, indicating a longing for maturity and a sense of wanting to move beyond their current age.
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