Answer:
Identity is the profile of somebody's life. In other words, it can be the account to who somebody is and/or their past experiences. Identity is how people call us or how we prefer ourselves to be.
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.
The Answer would most defenitly be the third option
