Question 5: Fill in blank [v] with the most fitting discourse marker …

Shara Hughes Interview
[i] _____, I grew up with three older brothers, and they always left me out. [ii] _____ I was always kind of independent playing [sic] (laughs). I quickly learned to be alone a lot in a place that was chaotic in a lot of ways. Not to say that we didn’t get along; we did. I had a great family. But I think that I took a class in high school and it was a sculpture class and I remember…[my] having some kind of ideas and that was to make a sculpture in metals and wire and everyone else had [iii] _____ these paper sculptures, but the teacher didn’t let me know that I was thinking differently until the end [when] we had our final project-do and mine was this huge like clock that had numbers coming off into the air [iv] _____ and everyone else had cardboard and paper and I was like… felt really embarrassed, and then they told me “Actually, this is great. Let’s encourage it. You think differently, so embrace that.” So I think that I kind of have a natural tendency towards visual kind of…inventions (laughs). But, [v] _____ in high school I kind of really decided I wanted to pursue going to art school. And from there, I kind of felt like it was no turning back [sic], which I think was stubborn, but that is sort of how you have to be an artist.
Transcribed from: “Shara Hughes Interview: Changing the Way We See.”
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Fill in blank [v] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.