¡Kput down my pen and handed in my paper. The final examinations were over. 8th grade is finally over. My friends and I were ecstatic! It was only after our celebratory lunch as I left the restaurant when a simple thought struck me. I was going to be thirteen in five weeks.

A teenager, I was finally going to be a teenager. This would be a stepping stone to adulthood, to having control over my life. My whole future lay ahead of me and I looked forward to it with a mixture of excitement and a tinge of wistfulness. For though I would be stepping forward, I would no longer be the playful child that I was before. Instead of invoking my usual childlike giddiness I felt a myriad of emotions; happiness yet a sense of dread and worry. As a child I eagerly anticipated growing up and I never really understood what my elders meant when they told me to enjoy being a kid. It finally started to make sense. While being older meant more opportunities, it also meant more work, and......

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