The past several months have been filled with multiple reasons to celebrate, including milestone birthdays for various friends and family members, myself included.

A few people's birthdays have moved them into new decades or bestowed the right to drive or vote, and some have reached the age to leave the nest. Birthdays, especially milestone birthdays, are the perfect opportunity to pause, reflect and celebrate.

The tradition of birthday cakes can be traced back to ancient civilizations. The ancient Greeks decorated moon-shaped cakes with candles to make the cake glow like the moon and believed that the smoke from the candles would carry the celebrant’s prayers to the gods.

In medieval England, cakes were baked with a symbolic object inside, and it was believed that the person who found

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