These best friends have sent each other the same birthday card back and forth for 81 years and it landed them a Guinness World Record
This birthday tradition will never get old.A pair of lifelong best friends in Louisville, Kentucky have been exchanging the same birthday card for over 80 years, signing and dating it over and over again.“We never said, ‘We’re going to do this.’ At least, I don’t remember ever saying that.It just happened,” Pat DeReamer, who turned 95 on Tuesday, told local outlet WKLY.It began 81 years ago when DeReamer received a puppy-adorned card from friend Mary Wheaton for her 14th birthday in April 1944 The following month, DeReamer signed the same card and returned it to Wheaton, and the back-and-forth tradition began.
DeReamer plans to mail Wheaton the same card again for her 95th birthday this coming May.The women’s commitment has earned them the Guinness Book of World Records title, “Longest Greeting 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 recalled.
She and Wheaton met back in 1942 during World War II, when DeReamer moved to town.“I didn’t know very many people,” DeReamer recalled.
“So, Mary kind of picked me up out of the gutter and kind of, you know, was nice to me.We became really good friends.”To this day, the pair still keep up their friendship — and the tradition — even if they don’t see each other as often anymore.
“I think as you get older, you don’t seem to … you’re supposed to have more time, but we don’t seem to have as much time to share as we did when we were younger,” said DeReamer.Their dedication puts two other correspondence to shame.Wisconsin pals Jackie Gempler and Evelyn Weier have been swapping the same Christmas cards every year — but only for about half a century.“I just wonder how many more years we can keep it up,” Gempler previously said.“They’re getting kind of beat up.
They look like they’re 50 years old.”Other female friendships that have stood the test of time include the UK...