What book or article were you referring to? Could you leave the excerpt?
Answer:
The short story “I'm Not Thirteen Yet” teaches that friendship does not depend on surface characteristics like age and appearance but rather comes from the heart. The narrator, Jamie, sums up her new insights and her new friendship with Margaret with the words, “From then on, I knew who my best friend was.
Explanation:
It shapes our identity because the choices we make help us learn what to not do again as we learn from mistakes. And the choices that are good we continue and that helps us be us!