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Beth Catlin was born on September 22, 1958, to Don and Barb Catlin.
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Using only her memory, Catlin can recall the names, birthdates, and addresses of the people she has metropolitan By July 2009, Catlin sends birthday cards each year to 3,834 people. In 1972, Catlin started sending birthday cards to people she has metropolitan
She sends cards to her family and friends, as well as neighbors and people at church.
She asks people for their name, address, and birthdate, and then catalogs the information in her head The cards she sends have never been returned due to a wrong address, and the spellings and birthdates have never been in error.
She makes the cards every day after dinner for everyone she has met as well as those people"s friends and family even if she has not seen them before. In October 1995, Catlin sent birthday cards to roughly 1,400 people.
In July 2009, Catlin sent birthday cards each year to 3,834 people.
Catlin"s cards are decorated with birthday balloons. Written in colored pencil, all her cards have the message, "Happy Birthday". She funds the card-sending with her job at the South. Wilson Pollock Center for Industrial Training.
On Catlin"s birthday, she receives over 200 birthday cards from the people in her birthday circle.
Many of these cards have presents of stamps. In the July 2009 issue of Reader"s Digest, Catlin was named "Best Birthday Wisher" in Rural Delivery"s "Best of America" feature.
