
The US presidential administration congratulated the 101st anniversary of the one-year-old Benjamin Shosted, confusing the age of the child, NBC News reports. Parents hope that a unique message will become a kind of prediction.
The spouses of Shosteda from the state of Utah, by tradition, regularly ask the White House to congratulate their children on birthdays. Benjamin is their youngest child. A week later he was performed by a year.
"Dear Benjamin, with the 101st birthday of you!" - The message says on the official form of the White House. The letter was signed by Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Parents jokingly compare their son with Benjamin Button - a literary character who lived backwards backwards.
The letter apparently sent by mistake. It says that the 101-year-old Benjamin is "an integral part of American history" and "witnesses of the best that our country can achieve by joint efforts."
According to RIA Novosti , the spouses in an interview with NBC reported that they took an unusual congratulation as a good omen.
Any citizen of the United States can get a congratulation from the White House, but only for special occasions indicated on the site . In particular, the president congratulates newborns, Americans over 80 years old, resigned after at least 20 years of service, as well as newlyweds who took care of this at least 6 weeks before the celebration. Also, congratulations on the anniversary can be ordered by couples who have lived together for at least 50 years.