11 (age) (n.) still sleeps with the stuffed animal and hides it when friends come over.
11 (age) (n.) is the last year a birthday party is about the party.
11 (age) (n.) is old enough to notice the adults are guessing.
11 (age) (n.) is much like the number, looking one way and behaving in another; with the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry; visually even, but functionally not.
18 (age) (n.) is old enough to vote and still asking a parent to make the dentist appointment.
18 (age) (n.) is the scary age at which you realize that you are the adult supervision.
18 (age) (n.) is a terrible age. It is not having grown up, but merely having found a different way of being young.
18 (age) (n.) is an age when nobody understands anyone, including those who are eighteen.
2 (age) (n.) is like a drunk with a clear sense of purpose: wobbly, loud, and determined.
2 (age) (n.) is the age when every no is a full-body event.
2 (age) (n.) is when a child learns "mine" works on anything.
2 (age) (n.) is company, three's a crowd.