A mature model

My birthday is on Sunday, which also happens to be Easter Day. Easter marks a time of renewal, so I take this to be the meaning of my birthday this year:  a new beginning. My friend Heloisa, tarot reader, is always going on about new beginnings, so she will be pleased to hear it.
This  is an in-between birthday, not one of those that mark the end of a decade and the beginning of another, it does not even mark half a decade. Still, I am making a big fuss over it, because my last two birthdays were filled with deep sorrow - I even got a birthday wish last year which said  'I hope you die in your sleep'. At the time it felt like receiving a kick in the stomach, I had never been the target of so much hatred.
So this birthday has got to be without tears, at least this is what I am aiming for.
I got  a cake, a vegan cake in fact, even though I am not a vegan, but I know a wonderful woman who makes special chocolate with organic ingredients and no sugar and I asked her to bake  me a cake. I jus…