A child who was only ten years old strolled through the bazaar and then persuaded almost every person to take his blood relative, which was his brother. People were afraid of a child in ragged clothes and all in mud, and with a baby that was not even a year old. The baby was wrapped in a torn towel. No one cared about the baby, who they also wanted to give away.
This weekend I wanted to go to the market, because I had to buy a lot of food for five days, as I like to eat a lot. I was standing near one granny picking tomatoes and dill from her, but after a minute someone came up to me, I turned around and a little boy asked me, “Young lady, do you want to take the baby away?” I am thirty-nine years old and have no husband. I broke up with my spouse because I didn’t want to have children at all, I thought I would find my man later.
After a few years, I realized that wasn’t going to happen. Eventually I decided to adopt a baby, and here I was with a question like this…it was like God sent me.
I put down the bag of vegetables, then turned and looked at the boy:
– I can take it! You can even give it to me now, can’t you?
– Of course I can now, I just don’t even have any food to feed the baby. Baby food for a long time, and the buckwheat I can not feed him, he refuses to eat …
– Tell me your name.
– My name is Ryan and this baby is Mark, we are brothers. The baby is not even a year old and eats only baby food, such as semolina, milk or mashed potatoes. You can take him, it won’t cost much.
– I have a question for you, will mom and dad fight when I take your brother?
– I only know my mom, and I’ve never seen my dad. My mom left home and she hasn’t shown up in a week. I think my mother will be happy when I give my little brother to someone. My mother beats my brother all the time because of his screaming at night.
I almost immediately thought that the family of these two was not very well off. I decided to take action, because you can’t just leave it at that. I realized that it was a sign, and it was good that I could adopt, since I already had the documents. I first need to find the mother. How can you leave two little ones alone for more than a week without supervision.
– Ryan, let’s go visit. I think your mother came home, and I want to adopt you, but I need your mother’s permission to do so.
– Come on, I don’t mind, it won’t take long to walk. Tears began to come to Ryan’s eyes and he started to cry.
– Ryan, why did you start crying, did something bad happen?
– Auntie, I’m afraid to be separated from my little brother, we’re as thick as thieves together, I’ll miss him a lot… My grandmother, who lives one floor down, keeps talking about how we’ll soon be living in an orphanage…
– I told you that I could take you both to my place, you are brothers and it is better not to separate you.
– I thought you were just going to take Mark and I was going to stay here, I’m ten years old now.
– I hope your mother won’t mind, and I hope the women in custody will allow it. You didn’t think your mother would miss you?
– I would probably come to visit her, but I don’t want to live with her under one roof at all, even in an orphanage would be better…Mother is always disappearing, and appears only when she is drunk, swears at us and beats us, and from food we always have buckwheat and all…. Sometimes she invites her friends over to our house and Mark and I are out in the yard until almost morning. And if these friends fall asleep there, then in the afternoon my mom will only let us go home. This story brought tears to the girl’s eyes.
When we approached the house, mom was sitting near the doorway smoking a cigarette. I could see that she had been drinking a lot yesterday. I realized that for the sake of alcohol this alcoholic was willing to do anything, even sell her babies. After about thirty minutes I finally explained to her that I needed to take my children away from her. This mother had only one thing to say to me:
– If you give me fifteen thousand for the kids, then take them away forever!
– Okay, but now I want to take them to live with me for a couple of days, and you’ll only get the money when we have all the documents drawn up.
– You can take them, but don’t forget about the money too, I’ll find you at any moment!
While we were talking I got a new tape in my dictaphone, after the conversation we immediately went with the children to the child welfare office. I showed the tape of an alcoholic who was willing to sell her children for a bottle of vodka. She was quickly deprived of custody of the children, and I adopted them. The women in custody told me not to give that much money, but I was able to insist and I went and took the fifteen thousand. Because of that mother, I am now the guardian of two beautiful boys and I am happy.
