"I wanted to leave the room, but feared my legs would collapse before I reached the exit." I didn’t expect to feel as excited about my 60th birthday as I had been about my 13th. In the baggage of my experiences, there are too many broken hearts and broken promises for the joyous expectations of my youth to fit — or so I thought. Surprisingly, after attending three or four of my friends’ celebrations, I realized I wanted nothing more than a two-tier cake with 60 — no, that’s a fire hazard for my