Just in time for her 95th birthday, her best friend Mary Wheaton arrived by post. It was no wonder that Pat Dianeamer was familiar with the birthday card. Because it is one and the same card that women have been sending back and forth on their birthdays for 81 years.
The two friends had met during the Second World War as a teenager in Indianapolis. Dianeamer revealed at the Wlky TV station: “I knew nobody at the time. Mary was the only one at school who was nice to me, that’s why we became the best friends.”
For Pats 14th birthday, Mary handed a card to her in 1944 on which a dog with blue sunglasses and red loop is shown at the front. This says, “I wish you a real colossal birthday.” In the map a dinosaurs skeleton is shown under the words “it will take a long time, long before you are an old fossil”.
No money for a new card
Because Deemer did not have the money a month later to buy her own card, she wrote her own dedication on her card for Mary’s birthday and surrendered it. The two of them then made a tradition.
Deereamer: “We had never really planned it, it just happened. After five years it was just a habit and a reason we call each other.” Especially since she had now moved to the state of Kentucky to Louisville.
Friends in the Guinness Book of Records
For the 60th anniversary of mutual card exchange, adults from Deamers surprised their mother in 2004 with a certificate. She came from the Guinness Book of Records and announced that Pat and Mary were now record holders in the “longest exchange exchange of a greeting card”.
Especially since the map has suffered something in the course of the eight decades and “looks like it’s 50 years old”, like the two jokes. That is why she is now gambling in a plastic movie and sends it in a Fed envelop. The next time in May when Mary 95 becomes.
Source: Krone
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