Birthday wishes
A sister has known you at your worst and has receipts. That is the material a birthday card should be made of, not the generic wishes she will get from everyone else.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Happy birthday. You've been putting up with me longer than anyone else alive, and it shows in how easily you can read me. Thank you for that, and for every embarrassing story you've kept to yourself. Mostly.
Continue writing with message 1Happy birthday to my first friend and my most reliable critic. You've told me the truth when nobody else was willing to, and I've needed that a lot more often than I've ever admitted. Have a very good day today.
Continue writing with message 2Happy birthday, behen. You've been the steady one through a year that wasn't easy for this family, and nobody has said thank you for it properly. So, thank you. Today you do nothing except get looked after.
Continue writing with message 3Happy birthday. Another year and you're still the favourite at home. I've made peace with it, mostly. Cut the cake, take all the credit, and I'll stand there pretending to be gracious about the whole thing.
Continue writing with message 4Happy birthday. Distance has changed absolutely nothing about the arrangement: you call me when it's serious, I call you when it's ridiculous, and we both know which of those happens more. Have a good one.
Continue writing with message 5Happy birthday. We've spent a good part of our lives arguing about nothing much, and somewhere in the middle of that you turned into the person I check with before I do anything important. I've never said that to your face and probably never will, so read it here twice. Have the day you'd choose for yourself.
Use the shared history. Siblings have material nobody else does — a specific holiday, a punishment you both took, the thing you broke and blamed on the cat. One reference to it beats any amount of warmth, because it can only have come from you.
Tease and then land it. A sibling card that is only affectionate reads as slightly alarming; one that is only teasing is a wasted birthday. Two funny lines and one honest one is the ratio that works.
Rakhi is not the only day siblings send each other something real.
Write her birthday cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.