A woman from Brooklyn received a birthday card in the mail from her now-deceased mother 45 years after it was sent.
The kiss-sealed letter was delivered Wednesday to Susan Heifetz's childhood home on East 12th Street, prompting the current tenant to track her down.
"He said, 'I have a letter for you and the only reason I'm trying to find you is because it's postmarked 1969,'" Susan explained to the New York Post. "I was like, 'Oh, my gosh.'...I was very emotional about it."
Heifetz finally received her 19th birthday card, dated June 27, 1969.
"Dear daughter Susan," the card began. "Mazel tov!" Her mother went on to wish her "health, happiness, success and a long life." It was signed, "Love and kisses, Mamma Molly and Daddy Sam."
Heifetz immediately recognized her mom's signature lip shade that sealed the envelope.
"This was my mother's thing at the time. To always seal it with a kiss," she told CBS.
And as fate would have it, Heifetz got two more letters: a birthday card from her brother, Barry, that he also sent 45 years earlier, and another letter from an old boyfriend who served in Vietnam, dated October 25, 1969.
"He had tried to reach me before he went overseas," Heifetz said of her beau. "But in 1969 there were no answering machines."
"It's obviously some kind of blessing from above," Barry added.
Heifetz had been struggling with the idea to move closer to her brother in Las Vegas, but had reservations about leaving her parents' burial site in Brooklyn.
"I felt like this was a stamp of approval," she said. "Like, [she was telling me] 'We'll always be in your hearts and soul. We found you 45 years later.'"
The post office told CBS that they didn't know where the letters had disappeared to.
