October 19, 2022 - 1:43 PM
If one were to rank the most difficult adolescent age, 11 may not be the first but it is certainly up there. It is just a horribly, hilariously awkward moment of still being very much a kid but with an agonizingly heightened awareness of all those teenage things that are just out of reach. And it is just a moment after all, but when you’re in it, when you are just 11, the days are long, the weeks move slowly and years feels like a lifetime.