Woman Has Received Christmas Cards from Strangers for 7 Years (Exclusive) [Video]

The first Christmas Emmaline Childs celebrated with her family in their house in Minneapolis in 2018, she received a holiday card from an unknown family.

At first, the 40-year-old marketing communications manager didn’t think much of the card. She didn’t know the family, who lives in Iowa, and quickly realized they must have sent it to her address because they didn’t know the previous owners had moved. She assumed the family would eventually realize their mistake and update their address list.

But now, seven years later, Childs is still receiving the family’s holiday card.

“It wasn’t until the fourth or fifth year that I started looking forward to the card’s arrival,” Childs tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I wish I had the foresight to know how much the cards from this family would come to mean to me!”

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