This birthday note gives a “non-asymptotic” version of our earlier result with G. N. Sarkozy and Szemeredi [3], in which Endre had the lion’s share. A hypergraph H with vertex set V defines the shadow graph G(H) whose vertex set is V and whose edge set is the set of pairs of V that are covered by some hyperedge of H. An edge coloring C of H defines a multicoloring, the shadow coloring $$C^{\prime}$$ on G(H), by assigning all colors of C to an edge xy of G(H) that appear on some edge of H containing $$\{x, y\}$$ . A matching in a graph is a set of pairwise disjoint edges. A matching in a graph is perfect if it covers all vertices of the graph. I show that in every (r −1)-coloring C of the complete r-uniform hypergraph $$K^{r}_{n}$$ there is a monochromatic perfect matching in the shadow coloring $$C^{\prime}$$ (assumingn ≥ r ≥ 2 and n is even).