Women have been exchanging the same birthday card for 81 years
Written by Angie Sharma on April 8, 2025
A Kentucky woman received mail from her lifelong friend on her birthday and opened it to find a familiar card: the same birthday card the women have been sending to one another for 81 years.
Pat DeReamer, who turned 95 on Tuesday, said the tradition began on her 14th birthday in Indianapolis, when her friend, Mary Wheaton, gave her a birthday card.
DeReamer added her own signature to the card and returned it to Wheaton for her birthday in May.
The exchange began a tradition that is now in its 81st year.
“We never said, ‘We’re going to do this.’ At least, I don’t remember ever saying that. It just happened,” DeReamer told WLKY-TV.
The women earned a Guinness World Record in the 60th year of their tradition for the longest greetings card exchange.
“I think one of my children came up with the idea that this card had been going back and forth for so many years,” DeReamer said.
DeReamer said she is now preparing to keep the tradition going by sending Wheaton the card in May.
Source : UPI News
