Personal Narrative: Gabrielle's Impact On My Life

Many people have had an impact on my life, but none quite like my best friend, and partner in crime, Gabrielle. Sure, typical and cliché people such as my mom, dad and teachers have had an impact on my life in some shape or another, but not to the extent that Gabrielle has impacted my life. She has been with me and walked with me throughout my early childhood until the present, difficult time of becoming a young adult and learning lessons essential to my livelihood. She steadfastly joined me in this scary journey known as life and has the stories and fun memories to prove it. The story of Gabrielle and I begins on a quiet street known as Shea lane. We were three years old living the simple life as three-year olds do. Our lives were simple until we met each other, two parents, a few pets, then it changed. We began as enemies, always competing, for things such as each other’s parent’s attention, another friend, or things as simple as who got to act out the role of ‘mom’ while playing …show more content…
Eventually, what feels like forever in a four-year olds mind, which was probably actually two weeks, we became best friends again. She gained my trust, apparently an easy thing to do, which leads to the next story that impacted our friendship. On a warm summer dusk, she lined all the girls of Shea lane up in front of her mother’s red minivan and grabbed a pair of crafting scissors. We began to play beauty school, cutting off the long ringlets that once flowed down my waist up to my ear lobes, and her chopping off a few bits of her hair. To say the least, I was probably the worst off in the looks department after the incident. My mother cried. It would take a whole novel to go over what all Gabrielle and I have gone through but these two stories give a good example of what our child hood was like, and essentially what she was like, a bit mischievous and rough around the edges, but all in all a great