How my 7th birthday Created one of my Favorite Childhood Memories

Gisele Muller Sasso
6 min readOct 19, 2021

I don’t remember much from my childhood. I have a few memories of things that stood out, for good or bad, but not a lot. It is like my mind retained bits and pieces of my early years, and everything else is a blur. I know a lot of things happened, but I don’t remember much. Maybe that’s how it is when you grow up without significant hiccups or worries, just living the typical day-to-day stuff.

But I do remember clearly the day when I turned seven years old. It was one of the happiest days of my life up until that point…

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Gisele Muller Sasso

Wife. Mom. Writer. Jazzercise instructor. I’m a Brazilian expat turned American currently living in Santa Cruz, CA.