The provided text is in Croatian, and we ask you to translate the text to the English language. Please bear in mind the following guidelines while translating: 1) We are looking for the most naturally written and formal form of each sentence in the English language. 2) If you encounter any special characters like '#@%$-+_=^&!*', then do not replace them. *INCLUDE* the special characters as suited when translating to English. Please keep them as they are in the translations. 4) Note the input is all case-sensitive except for special placeholders, and output is expected to be case-sensitive. 6) The input contains punctuations and output is expected to have relevant punctuations for grammatical accuracy.

Ima samo devet godina.
She's only nine.

Ovo je poput ostvarenja sna, biti dio ovog zbora jer nikad nisam bila dio nijednog zbora.
It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

Kad sam napunio 18 godina, izgubio sam najboljeg prijatelja u prometnoj nesreći.

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

