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Retrocession Day

day marking the anniversary of the end of Japanese rule over Taiwan on 25 October 1945

Anniversary Cards 📅 October 25 🌍 Taiwan, People's Republic of China 5 verses

About this card

Retrocession Day is the kind of occasion that benefits from a card you can hold — not a text, not a forwarded image, not a calendar reminder, but something printed on real paper that someone can prop on a shelf or tuck into a book. The verses below were written specifically for Retrocession Day rather than adapted from a general template, so each one carries the right register: warmer where warmth fits, quieter where quiet fits, lighter where the moment can take a smile.

Pick the verse that suits the person you're sending it to. If two feel right, you can use one as the front-of-card line and the other as the inside note. If none feel quite right, scroll down to the related occasions — sometimes a sibling card has exactly the tone you're looking for.

Print at home: these verses fit a standard A2 (4.25×5.5″) folded card or a half-letter (5.5×8.5″) flat card on 80–110 lb cardstock. See the printing guide for layout templates and paper recommendations.

Five verses for Retrocession Day

  • Another year of choosing each other. That choice — quiet and daily and unglamorous — is the most beautiful thing two people can do. Happy Retrocession Day.
  • Love is rarely the grand gesture. It's the cup of coffee, the shared joke, the hand on the small of the back. Wishing you many more of those small forevers.
  • The very best part of your story is that it just keeps going. Cheers to your Retrocession Day and to all the chapters still unwritten.
  • Some days are easy and some days are harder, but you keep showing up for each other — and that is the whole secret. Congratulations.
  • What a thing it is to grow alongside someone who keeps becoming more of themselves. Happy Retrocession Day — here\'s to all of it.

Writing tips for this occasion

If you're adding a personal line of your own beneath the verse, keep it specific. Mention a small thing — a shared memory, a thing you noticed, a way they made you feel last week. Generic compliments slide off the page, but a single concrete detail ("I still think about your tomato sauce," "your handwriting on that birthday list") lands hard and lasts.

Sign with the name they call you, not the name on your driver's license. Cards are intimate; signatures should be too. And if you're mailing it, write the address by hand — the envelope is part of the card. For more on the small choices that distinguish a memorable card from a forgettable one, the CardVerse card etiquette guide walks through register, format, and timing across cultures.

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Also observed in Taiwan

If you are sending a card across borders, these other occasions from the Taiwan calendar may also be worth marking this year: