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Cakes baked with care in a time of war

Kevin Muir of the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq with a Bake Me a Wish! cake. Kevin Muir of the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq with a Bake Me a Wish! cake.
By Darry Madden
Globe Correspondent / May 7, 2008

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Josh Kaye remembers the birthday cakes of his childhood so bittersweetly that he has shaped his life's work around them. He grew up in a family of humble means, and never had the kinds of birthday parties his friends did, the ones in which kids were covered in confetti and the culmination was a big cake and flickering candles. Now ... (Full article: 457 words)

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