Added another, "Happy birthday was said 0 times lmao." Sogar’s reaction to the birthday card, Broussard says, was a silent performance of shifting expressions. “I watched her make so many faces.

Still, the card kept coming. “We never missed a year,” DeReamer said, noting that one year, the birthday card got lost in the mail, but her husband tracked it down.

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.