This letter was written by Johnny Cash to his wife June Carter on her 65th birthday, in 1994.

House of Cash

June 23 1994

Odense, Denmark.

Happy Birthday Princess,

We get old and get use to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.

But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You're the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.

Happy Birthday Princess.

John

Nine years later, June Carter Cash died after suffering complications from heart surgery. Shortly before her death, she appeared in Cash's breathtakingly powerful video for his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt".