It was supposed to be her 13th birthday cake. Instead, thanks to the Second World War and a penitent US Army, it became her 90th.
Meri Mion was about to turn 13 when American troops pushed the Nazis out of her hometown near Vicenza, Italy, on 28 April, 1945. When the fighting was over, her mother baked her a birthday cake and put it on the windowsill to cool. A few minutes later, it mysteriously disappeared.
