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 ...

Two women have sent each other the same weathered birthday card for 81 years “The joke is that neither one of us knows who started the card,” said Mary Kroger, 94. April 10, 2025.

Pat DeReamer and Mary Wheaton-Kroger exchange the same card every year to celebrate each other's birthday — a tradition they've kept for the past 81 years.

Pat’s birthday is April 1st and Mary’s is May 20th. The card exchange began and they have signed and dated the card or envelopes every year since.

Decades later, on her 95th birthday, that very same card was once again delivered to her door. For the past 80 years, the two friends have exchanged the same card annually, ...

Six decades into exchanging the same card every year, the duo won the Guinness World Record for "Longest Greetings Card Exchange.” The record now belongs to two Australian friends who have been ...

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.' ...

The other teen was Mary Kroger, now 94. For the past 81 years, DeReamer and Kroger have been sending the same birthday card back and forth to each other on their birthdays, signing their names and ...