>>2266165At last I truly see! The Draw of the cake is the desire to bring happiness to ones partner!
The age, loneliness, desperation, insecurities, all re-enforce the image of a woman who is unsatisfied with life but with a fantastical dream about a union that will make her happy. A dream that has had years to seep into the core of her psyche. A dream that, as she knows it, is on a slow crawl to hopelessness with the rest of them which have faded over the years.
But all it takes is a single man to love her! Much like in the case of the tomboy, the unique nature of an attraction to her would hold a special place in her heart. Why a man who would choose her as the person they want to spend their years with would bring her untold happiness! Going from the impersonal day to day life, where one is supposed to suppress her romantic desires, where people are mostly polite but rarely close, to the intimacy of a partner. What sanctuary and relief it must bring.
To be that partner. To see that dream brought back from the brink, and the joy of love restored to the image of perfect love a girl makes when reading her storybooks in youth almost given up on. The delta from the deep despair, almost resigned to lifetime of isolation, to the brain encapsulating joy with the promise of a marriage to prevent such a fate. This... this is the true essence and power of the cake.
Well that and boobs 
