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A girl is worried and upset because she believes she is more excited and happy
about the relationship with her boyfriend than he is. So she says:

```

    わたしばっかり浮かれてる気がする……
    
```

I think the sentence means something like "It feels I am the _only one_ who is
happy...", with ばっかり meaning "only one". However, if my translation is indeed
correct, wouldn't だけ (maybe even しか too, but that would need to have the
sentence changed to negative form) fit better than ばっかり to express "I am the
only one happy, not him but just me" ? Because I understood ばっかり rather means
"there’s so much of something to the point where there’s nothing else"... and
I am not sure said meaning fits here (or does it?)

Am I getting the meaning/nuance of ばっかりin this context wrong?
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What's the meaning and nuance of ばっかり in this sentence?
Your translation is correct. ばっかり (colloquialism for ばかり) in this sentence is
indeed "only", and it's interchangeable with だけ here.

It's だらけ that _only_ means "so much/many of something". ばかり has a wider usage.

  * 美しいものだらけだ。: OK, "so many beautiful things"
  * 美しいものばかりだ。: OK, "(almost) only beautiful things", "so many beautiful things"
  * 美しいものだけだ。: OK, "only beautiful things"
  * × お前だらけが儲かっている。: Wrong
  * お前ばかりが儲かっている。: OK, "only you"
  * お前だけが儲かっている。: OK, "only you"
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