Paradoxes work by circularly falsifying the previous statement, and changing what the statement is asking.
I'd choose this dialogue to revise your sentence:
<span>“Did you hear?” I asked them. “My painting got selected! Exciting, right?” I smiled. “Especially given that I felt so incompetent at the beginning and that the competition was ruthless!”
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It feels like the option that best uses the dialogue to improve this sentence, because the other options are either too informal or just the same sentence as the original one.
answer: the first one
Explanation:
they were fighting because of the war that just happend
That means you are a christmas tree
