How an N.B. man's teen prank led to a 63-year exchange of Christmas cards

Every year at this time, Saint John resident Hugh Brittain wonders if that one certain letter will show up in his mailbox.

Last week it arrived: a Christmas card from a friend he’s never met. 

For the past 63 years, Brittain and his American pen pal, Wayne Anderson, have been exchanging Christmas cards.

They’ve never met, they’ve never spoken on the phone, they don’t even have each other’s email addresses.

But for the past six decades they’ve kept in touch, sending each other gifts and postcards and letters — and never once missing sending a Christmas card.

Hugh Brittain says he couldn’t understand why