Tonya with his young son came from Polesie to the Kherson village to raise a new farm. The husband did not have – no widow was and intelligence. People patted in languages ​​and finally subsided. Because such workers, like her, had to be searching. And Tonya had a good fortune, was able to joke, was sincere to people. So she rooted, she became a stranger to her family. And Ivanko grows up. Already graduated from the school, wanted to enter the institute. She was intelligent to the sciences, then her mother was climbing from the only son to get a better voucher in life like her. She wanted to study, had a job in the city and did not return to the village to work. And she asked the Lord – her boyfriend broke into “scientists”. Increasingly, his road was brought to his mother’s village because he worked at the institute, which he graduated with honors. Tony did not know when he married. Because Ivanko brought her “to the examination” of the daughter -in -law, as they were married for almost a year.

She looked at Svetlana: high, beautiful! As if they should be happy for your son. But in the heart it hurts so much that without her mother’s blessing to marriage. Therefore, in response to the greetings of the son, only the tear asked, not the word. She stood as dug, and wept. Even she did not invite you to the house. “But that Mom, you were breaking,” Ivan reassured. – I am alive, health. Here you brought to you the daughter -in -law. Soon grandchildren have. Rejoice for me! – Sorry, Ivanko, for my old tears … So my love cries for you. We have not seen so long ago. Not restrained. – Well, it’s good. Give you a hug. And then there will be a flood, – Ivan joked, and without waiting for his mother to approach, he stepped to her, hugged, kissed – and she had fun. Although Tonya cried at the dining table more than once. She couldn’t understand how children got married and did not marry in the church? – What is the wedding, mom?

We, with Svetlana in the Communist Party, both … And for his soul took his sons. “I get you without the church for you,” John escaped. – Because, see, I don’t have my father. And it was never … Svetlana stopped him in these words. She saw that the mother -in -law was quite bad. She rolled up in a glass and led her into the room. There she helped Ivan’s mother lie on the bed, covered her with a warm scarf, which she brought as a gift. And, waiting, as the woman falls asleep, she returned to the kitchen. – Why are you so? You see mothers and so bitter. Do not get it, ”Ivan said sharply. – And so all life. How much he did not ask her, how much he did not ask: well, tell me who was my father! And she is silent. Do you think I’m not bitter? Do not know what kind of kind. In the evening, Tonya rose out of bed, and there are no guests. And again she was washed with tears.

The next time the son brought the daughter -in -law with his granddaughter, a little daughter. Later, they came with two children. So I saw Tonya of her son once or two a year. Only she heard excuses on her question why Ivan does not go for a long time: the bus rarely walks, then there is no time, then the road is bad, and his car is not a young car to beat. Everyone tried to understand, to perceive. And again her mother’s heart was crying. In the year they flew constantly, as on the wings it attributed her years to the whirlwind. During this time, Tonya was away. Already seventy has passed, and eighty … The 90th anniversary was approaching. And Ivan decided to make a surprise – not for the first time in her life. The grandfather himself became and began to understand how important it is for children to visit you. As always, in her birthday, Tonya gathered in the temple in the morning.

Although it was not Sunday, but she knew that the priest would open a church for her, confess, involved, sung “many summers”. She barely squeezed, opened the door – and the whole family stood inside: a son with a daughter -in -law, their daughters with men and children! Everyone came to one. And did Tony know what to rejoice: what the Lord sent to her such a long age, or that finally saw all her loved ones and dear together? From the church were taken to the area to the restaurant. The old Tonya in her life did not see the dishes that they served there, and did not try such a good cake made in her honor. Fun was to be completed. The distinguished anniversary seemed to be told toast. Here, by the way, Ivan asked again: – I already told you, Thank you, Mom, that I have that. Although you did not tell me anything about him. Maybe you will say that day? The mother got up, looked around. Dozens of eyes looked at her. Everyone seemed to be waiting for her answer.

She gathered with thoughts, took her breath and confessed: – And I, my son, not only who your father does not know, but who … your mother. And bitterly burst into tears. Silence reigned in the hall. Everything seemed to be petrified in their places, they were afraid to even move. Only Ivan rose. – What are you, mom, say? – Truth, child. Somehow I went from the forest, and I hear – somewhere the boy cries. I looked around and found a bag in the grass. So you lay drunk, and around – no one. Did not want to lose you, but probably could not grow. Once she put where people go to take someone. Here I took it. The documents made you and with the little world for the eye so that no one would ever tell you the truth. Ivan’s mother rushed to kiss, to ask for forgiveness. And she stopped him: – All life was afraid of this day, that I will tell you everything – and you will leave me. Because who I am… ”You are my mom. I don’t have another. After his mother’s revelation, Ivan became more likely to visit his mother. Because I understood the price of maternal sacrifice!