This birthday custom won’t ever get previous.
A pair of lifelong greatest pals in Louisville, Kentucky have been exchanging the identical birthday card for over 80 years, signing and courting it over and over.
“We by no means mentioned, ‘We’re going to do that.’ At the very least, I don’t keep in mind ever saying that. It simply occurred,” Pat DeReamer, who turned 95 on Tuesday, informed native outlet WKLY.
It started 81 years in the past when DeReamer obtained a puppy-adorned card from buddy Mary Wheaton for her 14th birthday in April 1944
The next month, DeReamer signed the identical card and returned it to Wheaton, and the back-and-forth custom started.
DeReamer plans to mail Wheaton the identical card once more for her ninety fifth birthday this coming Might.
The ladies’s dedication has earned them the Guinness E-book of World Information title, “Longest Greeting Card Trade.”
“I believe considered one of my youngsters got here up with the concept that this card had been going forwards and backwards for therefore a few years,” DeReamer recalled.
She and Wheaton met again in 1942 throughout World Conflict II, when DeReamer moved to city.
“I didn’t know very many individuals,” DeReamer recalled. “So, Mary form of picked me up out of the gutter and form of, , was good to me. We grew to become actually good pals.”
To at the present time, the pair nonetheless sustain their friendship — and the custom — even when they don’t see one another as usually anymore.
“I believe as you become older, you don’t appear to … you’re presupposed to have extra time, however we don’t appear to have as a lot time to share as we did once we had been youthful,” mentioned DeReamer.
Their dedication places two different correspondence to disgrace.
Wisconsin friends Jackie Gempler and Evelyn Weier have been swapping the identical Christmas playing cards yearly — however just for about half a century.
“I simply marvel what number of extra years we will stick with it,” Gempler beforehand mentioned. “They’re getting form of beat up. They appear like they’re 50 years previous.”
Different feminine friendships which have stood the take a look at of time embody the UK-based besties Josie Church and Anne Wallace-Hadrill, who not solely dwell next-door to one another but additionally share the identical birthday.
The pair have been neighbors for the reason that Nineteen Eighties and had been born on the identical day again in 1924 — April 1 — which means they only celebrated their one hundred and first birthdays this week.
“I don’t suppose we’ve thought a lot concerning the time passing,” Church beforehand mentioned. “It’s simply handed.”
