Money can buy you alot of things
But the things money can’t buy
•Friends
•Dreams
•Health
•wisdom
•Respect
•Time
the second bit is more formal, " You're six years old, aren't you?"
because, the other sounds very demanding or imperative, like as if you have to answer the question. so, it has to be the second line.
“Open up the gallery on your phone”
As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.
