Marta says that social networks bombard her announcing the birthdays of her contacts, but when the date of hers arrives, they always skip it.
Today will be different: she will finally celebrate her birthday on the corresponding day.
Like her, twelve other people have told EL PAÍS what it is like to be born on February 29, a day that only appears on the calendar every four years.
Beyond the obvious - what day do you celebrate your birthday when there is no 29th - the anecdotes pile up when you are born in a leap year: there is a
club
that brings them together every four years, in order to register
online,
sometimes they invent their date of birth and some teachers have even interrupted, in disbelief, exams to discover that there are indeed people whose birthdays are on February 29.