and the back-and-forth tradition began. DeReamer plans to mail Wheaton the same card again for her 95th birthday this coming May. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING ...

When the girl’s birthday came around, the friend sent the same card back to her. “Neither one of us can remember who started it,” said Pat DeReamer, one of the two girls, who is now 95.

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.

“We don’t know why it kept going back and forth,” DeReamer said. “It just happened.” DeReamer gets the card first, on her April 1 birthday, then signs it and mails it back to ...

“We don’t know why it kept going back and forth,” DeReamer said. “It just happened.” DeReamer gets the card first, on her April 1 birthday, then signs it and mails it back to Wheaton, so she can open ...