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Translation

• Context: Akaza Akari 赤座あかり, a 13 years old girl, regrets not being 14 years old like her friends, because they started middle school one year before her, so she spent a whole year without going to school with them.
• aaa...
  あーあ･･･
  Aah... (sigh.)
• Akari ga {mou ichinen hayaku} umaretetara dougakunen datta noni
  あかりがもう一年早く生まれてたら同学生だったのに
  If Akari had been born {one year sooner} [we] would have been in the same year of school.
  (counterfactual conditional.)
  • umaretetara - contraction of umarete-itara 生まれていたら.
    (i-nuki-kotoba い抜き言葉.)
• Akaza Akari (juu-san)
  赤座あかり（１３）
  Akaza Akari (thirteen).
  • In Japanese, a number inside parentheses after someone's name typically indicates their age.
  • The family name (Akaza) comes before the given name (Akari), opposite to the name ordering in America, for example.