" The Red Dress " Coming of age paragraph

I think that the main characters coming of age moment does not really happen until the end when she realizes that she should try to love and understand her mother a little bit more. " I understood what a mysterious and oppressive obligation I had, to be happy, and how I had almost failed it, and would likely to fail it, every time, and she would not know." She only feels good about her life when she is doing something that every other girl would do at some point, so when it happens for her, she feels normal. " I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible. "