Birthday wishes
Her phone will fill up by nine in the morning with the same four words from thirty people. The only card that stands out is the one that could not have been sent by anyone 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. ❤️ After all this time you're still the first person I want to tell things to, the good news and the bad news both, before anybody else hears any of it. I don't take that for granted. I love you. Have a lovely day.
Continue writing with message 1Happy birthday. Somewhere between work and the grocery list I forget to say the obvious thing, so here it is in writing: this whole life works because you hold it together, and I'd choose it again tomorrow without thinking twice.
Continue writing with message 2Happy birthday. I hope this is the year you get more of what you actually want out of it: the trip you keep putting off, the work you're serious about, a few months where nothing goes wrong. Say the word and I'll make room for it.
Continue writing with message 3Happy birthday. You've somehow got better at everything this year while I've stayed exactly the same, which feels a bit unfair. Anyway, the day is yours, the kitchen is mine, and I've promised not to burn anything.
Continue writing with message 4Happy birthday. Marrying you is still the best decision I've made, and I made it barely knowing what I was doing. Every year since has been you quietly proving I got lucky. Thank you for the ordinary days most of all.
Continue writing with message 5Happy birthday. I hope today is easy from beginning to end and that nothing at all lands on you. And I hope you know, on the ordinary days as much as on this one, that everything good about the last few years has had you in the middle of it, and that I'm luckier than I usually remember to say.
Give her the day, in writing. The single most effective line in a wife's birthday card is not a compliment, it is a specific removal of work — I have done the tiffin, do not go near the kitchen, your mother has been called. Affection plus one concrete thing beats affection alone every time.
Do not open with the number. Even if she is relaxed about her age, the age is the one thing every other message will mention. Start where nobody else can: something from this particular year that only you were present for.
Send it at midnight, sealed, before the group forwards start arriving.
Write her birthday cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.