Growing up is by no means a bad thing. It allows us to make a 1)__________in the world, to find out who we are, and to live the life we 2)_________ aschildren. We dreamed of growing up when we rested our young heads on our downypillows and looked up with 3)________ atthe glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to our ceiling, wondering what the world 4)_________beyond our own home, beyond the world that had been so meticulously created forus. Yet upon growing up, we find that reality often 5)_____________ those verydreams. We find that the 6)_______ of growing up is perhaps less lovely thanwe’d envisioned. We find that the only thing we really want back is our youthand our 7)___________ , and the cruel irony is that these are the very thingsthat will never 8) ______.