On the eve of her anniversary, Olga was worried, fearing the border with the number 45. – It would be more likely to spend the anniversary and continue to live, ”she thought. Michael’s husband reassured, said he had prepared a surprise. Relatives, friends and neighbors were invited to the anniversary. Olga always believed that with neighbors it was necessary to live together, especially since they are their peers. The neighbors Vladimir and Natalia did not come. With them were their 20-year-old daughter Julia. Natalia whispered that Yulia came from the city yesterday and now she had depression after parting with a young man. – Of course, you go, the girl needs to be distracted – Olga gladly invited. Everyone sat down at the table. Michael was extremely kind with his wife: he said a beautiful toast, completing him with a well -known winged phrase: “In forty -five – Baba berry again!” Everyone applauded, he hugged his wife and kissed, Olga burst into tears. And then fun began: songs, dances, mental conversations at the table. Olya rushed to bring, she wanted to ask her husband, and not see him somewhere.

She remembered that there were festive drinks in the bath, decided to bring herself. And the bath was on the estate behind the house. Olya in brand new shoes took place on the trail. She came to the bath, she wanted to open the door, as she heard ohi and ah, girlish whisper and men’s growl. Olga froze in place. The sounds were clear that in the bath – a man, and by the girl’s voice determined that she was the young daughter of their neighbors – Yulia. But she seemed to be depression. Olga became terrible. She did not understand what to do. She was stunned, showed a terrible picture from her life and said, do it. And she didn’t know what to do! Olga departed from the bath, grabbed an apple and hung on her in exhaustion. Five minutes later, she went to the bath again to open the door. But at the door she clearly heard the voice of a neighborly yulka: – Well, how, how do you? – Oh, Julia, Julia, good! – So good that you would stay with you for life. Smooth all, though I will touch and already crazy.

Not that my son-in-law! Olga, having heard the “dried fruit”, pulled out from the door: she realized that she called her husband so. She went away from the door again: she did not want to go there. What will she tell them what she will do? After all, the anniversary today. On the very holiday, it is already a sight of the era, so let the guests have fun. Olga came to the guests again, turned on the whole volume of music and went to dance. For all twenty -five years, she has not danced so much. She was applauded. Olga laughed; Only this laughter was some unnatural, wild laughter. And it would be a little bit. Soon, Michael appeared and joined the general fun, announcing a surprise for his wife. Salute was a surprise in honor of the anniversary. The guests rejoiced. And no one noticed how Olga was crying quietly under the fire. Yulka no longer came. And it would be good, otherwise Olga would have. And she didn’t want it. She prepared a surprise to her husband.

After spending the guests, she began to wash dishes. Michael quickly undressed and lay down, closed his eyes as if he wanted to sleep very much. In the morning, Michael, waking up, did not see his wife in bed, which was very strange. All these years, as it may, they slept in one bed. Michael reached, remembered yesterday, a stormy acquaintance with Yulka, smiled dreamily. Then he looked at the other side of the bed where his wife had to sleep, and the unexpected picture rounded his eyes. The whole half of the bed was strewn with dried fruits: apricot, prunes, dried apples and pears. – What is nonsense? Michael muttered. – Olga, where are you? Come here! He shouted. But no one responded. Michael got up and went to the hall, then went to the kitchen. Olga was not. He remembered how he discussed his wife with Yulka and understood the hint of dried fruits.

The wife came home only for lunch. And not alone. There were two older brothers with her. – Collect things and shafts. If you deny, I will tell your sons about your shameful connection with a deficiency. This is the answer from the “dried fruit” – yes, it seems you called me yesterday. – Olga, everything is wrong, that’s not all. – She alone … I didn’t expect … I just woke up now, I was drunk. -Samyak, be a man,-asked the brothers,-go in a good way. On the same day, Michael, stunned by his wife’s decision, left home. When the door closed behind him, Olga fell on the sofa and began to cry and shout from hopelessness, insults and injustice. Eight months later, Olya gave birth to a girl. Noting forty -five years, she did not know that she was pregnant. And when she kicked Michael, she realized that she would keep her baby.

She did not tell anyone about pregnancy for a long time, afraid that they would refuse. And so the daughter of Lilichka was born. Olga recorded a child on Michael – like a native father – and filed for divorce and child support. Michael removed an apartment in the city and began to live with a yulka, which was enough for two months. And when Michael ended, she fled from him. The neighbors were afraid to look at Olga in the eyes: he was ashamed of her daughter. Sometimes Michael visits to the village and sees his ex -wife walking with her daughter. Improved, rejuvenated Olga looks as if there was no horrible anniversary on which the man made her an unforgettable gift. Now Michael is timid to look at his daughter – he is not allowed into the house. Then he sedes the help, looking at his wife, which he wrote off the accounts so early.