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What the dont understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your elevnth birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you dont. You open your eyes and everything is just like yesterday, only its today. You feel like youre still ten. And you are-Underneath the year that makes you eleven. 

Like some days you might say something stupid, and thats the part of you that is still ten. And maybe somedays you need to sit in your mama's lap because youre scared, and thats the part of you that is five. And maybe one day when youre all grown up you will need to cry like if youre three, and thats okay. Thats what I tell mama when she is sad and needs to cry. Maybe she is feeling three. 

Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other one. Each year inside the next one. Thats how being an eleven year old is. 

You dont feel eleven. Not right away. It takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes even months before you say eleven when they ask you. And you dont feel smart eleven, not until youre almsot twelve. Thats the way it is. -Sandra 
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What the dont understand about birthdays and what they never

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skyblue946 · 1 decade ago
I read that book last year, 'eleven' is a very good book.
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