The Boston Herald, May 23rd, 2004
Byline: Peter Chianca
Remember the birthday parties we had when we were kids? The ones where you got a slab of cake and an ice cream you had to excavate from the plastic cup with a wooden stick? You'll recall there were no meticulously rendered cartoon characters on the cake; in my case, the only thing imprinted on the frosting was the hand-shaped crevasse left by my little brother, who was apparently still developing his impulse control.
But birthday expectations have changed during the past 30 years, culminating in the snowball that was my daughter's fifth birthday party last week. We fi...
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