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A childless old woman reached her one-hundredth birthday alone, with no one to celebrate with. A boy shows up at her door and introduces himself as her great-grandson.Ruby was reaching an incredible landmark birthday for any human being, and nobody cared. She was turning one hundred, but there was no one to celebrate the moment with her.Ruby was alone, just as she\u2019d been for most of her life. From the time she was eight years old, and her father had gone off to fight in the war, Ruby had shouldered an adult\u2019s burden.<\/p>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsHer mother was a frail and distant woman, and her dad had taken Ruby aside. \u201cI\u2019m going to need you to be a big girl, Ruby,\u201d he\u2019d said seriously. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to be very responsible and look after momma, OK?\u201d\u201cOK, daddy,\u201d Ruby had answered, and that had been the end of her childhood. Ruby became the adult in the family and looked after her mother and her four younger siblings.She couldn\u2019t wait for daddy to come home, so she could be a kid again, but he never did. When Ruby was twelve, the family was informed that their father had died in combat.Daddy was never coming home. Mom fell apart, screaming and crying so much that she frightened the other children dreadfully. A doctor had to come and give mom an injection, and then she was quiet and vague again.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong>The pension mom got from the Government was very small, and she wasn\u2019t able to work. Ruby gave up school and took a job at a nearby shop that sold fabric, threads, buttons, and ribbons \u2014 anything you\u2019d need to make clothes in those hard times.Ruby was bright and energetic, and she soon became an asset to the woman who owned the haberdashery, Mrs. Dorris. Mrs. Dorris was a war widow, just like mom, and she was kind to Ruby in her way.She\u2019d sometimes give Ruby off-cuts from the prettiest prints and bits of colorful ribbons so she could make herself little shift dresses. Ruby often used the fabric on her siblings, and on her mom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashMom had become even more distant as she grew older. She drifted around the house in her nightgown, and Ruby had to watch, so she didn\u2019t go outside like that.Ruby was determined that her four sisters would finish school, and she refused to allow them to go to work to help out. \u201cFocus on school,\u201d she\u2019d tell them sternly. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest help you can give us!\u201dRuby turned eighteen, and no one noticed. There was no party, no presents, no birthday cake. Mrs. Dorris didn\u2019t know or didn\u2019t care \u2014 she was an unemotional kind of woman.Mom was lost in her own world, and Ruby\u2019s sisters, with the innate selfishness of children, didn\u2019t even realize that Ruby, too, had birthdays.That was the year Ruby met Brad. He was tall and slim, and he had a shy smile. He came to the shop to buy needles for his mom and stayed to talk to Ruby.They started \u2018stepping out,\u2019 as people called it back then. They went out dancing and to the movies, and parked and kissed on Lover\u2019s Lane. Then the kissing led to more.When Ruby discovered she was pregnant, Brad told her he\u2019d marry her, they\u2019d have a pretty house and raise their children and be very happy. Then Ruby told him about mom and the girls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: Unsplash\u201cI have to look after them, Brad,\u201d Ruby told him. \u201cI promised my father. But in a few years, the girls will be finished with school, and it will be only mom.\u201d\u201cYour crazy mother and your sisters are moving in with us?\u201d Brad asked. \u201cFor the rest of our lives? Is that what you\u2019re telling me?\u201d After that, Brad was very quiet.He agreed to meet the next day and make the arrangements for the wedding, but he didn\u2019t kiss Ruby goodbye the way he usually did. Ruby never saw him again.She learned that he\u2019d volunteered for the new war in Asia that very afternoon. He\u2019d left her all alone and pregnant. \u201cWhat am I going to do?\u201d she asked herself.If she kept the baby, what kind of life could she give it? She had to work all the time to raise her sisters and look after her mother. She couldn\u2019t leave the baby with mom while she worked; it just wasn\u2019t safe.Ruby pressed her hands to her tummy and wept. She\u2019d have to give up her child. She\u2019d give it up for adoption and know that he or she would be loved and cherished.The moment when she gave up her newborn daughter was one of the hardest in Ruby\u2019s life, but she knew she was doing it for the best reasons. \u201cBe happy, my sweet girl,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashThat was more years ago than Ruby cared to remember, and the last time she\u2019d felt young. After Brad, Ruby never looked at another man. She knew that whatever happened, they would never accept her burdens, and she couldn\u2019t ask them to.One by one, her sisters finished school and left home. They married and moved away, and Ruby was left to care for mom, as always. Ruby was seventy-three when her mom passed awayThat day Ruby wept, not just for her mother, but for the bitter waste of an entire life. She had nothing. No family, and since her retirement, few friends.\u201cI\u2019ll just wait to die,\u201d Ruby told herself. \u201cIt can\u2019t be long now.\u201d But it was. Ruby was a sturdy woman in the best of health, and pretty soon, she turned eighty, then ninety\u2026The years passed unmarked by any celebration. No one cared. Ruby sat in her little house and grew older and older. When she turned ninety-nine, a social worker showed up.She wanted to see if Ruby was capable of living on her own. She looked around and was quite happy with her living conditions. She left without wishing Ruby a happy birthday.\u201cOne hundred,\u201d Ruby said to herself. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a century of this world\u2019s history and lived none of it.\u201d She was sitting in her kitchen and thinking about her life when the doorbell rang.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsShe got up and opened the door. There was a young man there, and he was holding a huge cake with a big 100 on top of it. \u201cHi Gran!\u201d he cried cheerfully. \u201cHappy birthday!\u201dRuby\u2019s chin dropped. \u201cYoung man, you have the wrong house\u2026\u201d\u201cNo, I don\u2019t,\u201d he said gently. \u201cYou are my great-grandmother Ruby. My grandmother always wanted to know who her birth mother was, so when she turned 81, I had the records unsealed.\u201cNo one imagined you were still alive! Gran\u2019s outside, in the car, waiting to meet you \u2014 if you agree.\u201d\u201cMy daughter?\u201d Ruby asked. \u201cShe\u2019s\u2026Does she want to meet me? I\u2026I gave her up\u2026I wanted her to be happy\u2026\u201d\u201cShe knows that gran,\u201d the young man said. \u201cWe also know you\u2019ve been alone for a long time, but now you have a family: a daughter, five grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren!\u201dRuby started sobbing, and the young man put his arms around her. \u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re here now, and you\u2019re going to have quite a party!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashRuby met her daughter, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, and it was the best day of her life. They lit the candles on the cake and sang \u2018Happy Birthday.\u2019 It was the most beautiful sound Ruby had ever heard.\u201cMy life wasn\u2019t a waste after all,\u201d she whispered to her daughter. \u201cI had you!\u201dWhat can we learn from this story?<\/strong>Duty can be a terrible burden, but life always brings a reward.<\/strong> Ruby gave up everything, including her child, to keep her word to her father and look after her mother.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong> Ruby was alone until her 100th birthday, and she spent the rest of her life surrounded by family and love.Share this story with your friends. It might brighten their day and inspire them.<\/strong>If you enjoyed this story, you might like this one about an elderly woman who is shocked when a woman calls her and tells her she is the child she thought had died at birth forty-six years before.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsHer mother was a frail and distant woman, and her dad had taken Ruby aside. \u201cI\u2019m going to need you to be a big girl, Ruby,\u201d he\u2019d said seriously. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to be very responsible and look after momma, OK?\u201d\u201cOK, daddy,\u201d Ruby had answered, and that had been the end of her childhood. Ruby became the adult in the family and looked after her mother and her four younger siblings.She couldn\u2019t wait for daddy to come home, so she could be a kid again, but he never did. When Ruby was twelve, the family was informed that their father had died in combat.Daddy was never coming home. Mom fell apart, screaming and crying so much that she frightened the other children dreadfully. A doctor had to come and give mom an injection, and then she was quiet and vague again.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong>The pension mom got from the Government was very small, and she wasn\u2019t able to work. Ruby gave up school and took a job at a nearby shop that sold fabric, threads, buttons, and ribbons \u2014 anything you\u2019d need to make clothes in those hard times.Ruby was bright and energetic, and she soon became an asset to the woman who owned the haberdashery, Mrs. Dorris. Mrs. Dorris was a war widow, just like mom, and she was kind to Ruby in her way.She\u2019d sometimes give Ruby off-cuts from the prettiest prints and bits of colorful ribbons so she could make herself little shift dresses. Ruby often used the fabric on her siblings, and on her mom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/Icbln7GubwX5_BJi0gpkAmyrWxC3cfdXGqt7_85lED8\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vODgxZGE2MGE1ZmQ3ZDU2MjdjNWQzZGYyYzUyODgwNjkuanBnP3dpZHRoPTE2MDAmaGVpZ2h0PTEyMDAmd2lkdGg9MTYwMCZoZWlnaHQ9MTIwMA.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsHer mother was a frail and distant woman, and her dad had taken Ruby aside. \u201cI\u2019m going to need you to be a big girl, Ruby,\u201d he\u2019d said seriously. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to be very responsible and look after momma, OK?\u201d\u201cOK, daddy,\u201d Ruby had answered, and that had been the end of her childhood. Ruby became the adult in the family and looked after her mother and her four younger siblings.She couldn\u2019t wait for daddy to come home, so she could be a kid again, but he never did. When Ruby was twelve, the family was informed that their father had died in combat.Daddy was never coming home. Mom fell apart, screaming and crying so much that she frightened the other children dreadfully. A doctor had to come and give mom an injection, and then she was quiet and vague again.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong>The pension mom got from the Government was very small, and she wasn\u2019t able to work. Ruby gave up school and took a job at a nearby shop that sold fabric, threads, buttons, and ribbons \u2014 anything you\u2019d need to make clothes in those hard times.Ruby was bright and energetic, and she soon became an asset to the woman who owned the haberdashery, Mrs. Dorris. Mrs. Dorris was a war widow, just like mom, and she was kind to Ruby in her way.She\u2019d sometimes give Ruby off-cuts from the prettiest prints and bits of colorful ribbons so she could make herself little shift dresses. Ruby often used the fabric on her siblings, and on her mom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/cdn.amomama.com\/b5ec92af94a0bf6cfa5d6a28b992b365.jpg\")
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashMom had become even more distant as she grew older. She drifted around the house in her nightgown, and Ruby had to watch, so she didn\u2019t go outside like that.Ruby was determined that her four sisters would finish school, and she refused to allow them to go to work to help out. \u201cFocus on school,\u201d she\u2019d tell them sternly. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest help you can give us!\u201dRuby turned eighteen, and no one noticed. There was no party, no presents, no birthday cake. Mrs. Dorris didn\u2019t know or didn\u2019t care \u2014 she was an unemotional kind of woman.Mom was lost in her own world, and Ruby\u2019s sisters, with the innate selfishness of children, didn\u2019t even realize that Ruby, too, had birthdays.That was the year Ruby met Brad. He was tall and slim, and he had a shy smile. He came to the shop to buy needles for his mom and stayed to talk to Ruby.They started \u2018stepping out,\u2019 as people called it back then. They went out dancing and to the movies, and parked and kissed on Lover\u2019s Lane. Then the kissing led to more.When Ruby discovered she was pregnant, Brad told her he\u2019d marry her, they\u2019d have a pretty house and raise their children and be very happy. Then Ruby told him about mom and the girls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/-aolg_gfkgbjyl1DUJq3yVf5O79pMmCIVdkc0ImD3l4\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vYjVlYzkyYWY5NGEwYmY2Y2ZhNWQ2YTI4Yjk5MmIzNjUuanBnP3dpZHRoPTQwMzImaGVpZ2h0PTMwMjQmd2lkdGg9NDAzMiZoZWlnaHQ9MzAyNA.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashMom had become even more distant as she grew older. She drifted around the house in her nightgown, and Ruby had to watch, so she didn\u2019t go outside like that.Ruby was determined that her four sisters would finish school, and she refused to allow them to go to work to help out. \u201cFocus on school,\u201d she\u2019d tell them sternly. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest help you can give us!\u201dRuby turned eighteen, and no one noticed. There was no party, no presents, no birthday cake. Mrs. Dorris didn\u2019t know or didn\u2019t care \u2014 she was an unemotional kind of woman.Mom was lost in her own world, and Ruby\u2019s sisters, with the innate selfishness of children, didn\u2019t even realize that Ruby, too, had birthdays.That was the year Ruby met Brad. He was tall and slim, and he had a shy smile. He came to the shop to buy needles for his mom and stayed to talk to Ruby.They started \u2018stepping out,\u2019 as people called it back then. They went out dancing and to the movies, and parked and kissed on Lover\u2019s Lane. Then the kissing led to more.When Ruby discovered she was pregnant, Brad told her he\u2019d marry her, they\u2019d have a pretty house and raise their children and be very happy. Then Ruby told him about mom and the girls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/cdn.amomama.com\/5e56d8b4b25a83d2f5ddb3456eb9eada.jpg\")
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: Unsplash\u201cI have to look after them, Brad,\u201d Ruby told him. \u201cI promised my father. But in a few years, the girls will be finished with school, and it will be only mom.\u201d\u201cYour crazy mother and your sisters are moving in with us?\u201d Brad asked. \u201cFor the rest of our lives? Is that what you\u2019re telling me?\u201d After that, Brad was very quiet.He agreed to meet the next day and make the arrangements for the wedding, but he didn\u2019t kiss Ruby goodbye the way he usually did. Ruby never saw him again.She learned that he\u2019d volunteered for the new war in Asia that very afternoon. He\u2019d left her all alone and pregnant. \u201cWhat am I going to do?\u201d she asked herself.If she kept the baby, what kind of life could she give it? She had to work all the time to raise her sisters and look after her mother. She couldn\u2019t leave the baby with mom while she worked; it just wasn\u2019t safe.Ruby pressed her hands to her tummy and wept. She\u2019d have to give up her child. She\u2019d give it up for adoption and know that he or she would be loved and cherished.The moment when she gave up her newborn daughter was one of the hardest in Ruby\u2019s life, but she knew she was doing it for the best reasons. \u201cBe happy, my sweet girl,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/PY3C0oizQRviQS0ENbCGePslm8SAtSC8zJgAbAiFQ4s\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vNWU1NmQ4YjRiMjVhODNkMmY1ZGRiMzQ1NmViOWVhZGEuanBnP3dpZHRoPTQ4OTYmaGVpZ2h0PTMyNjQmd2lkdGg9NDg5NiZoZWlnaHQ9MzI2NA.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: Unsplash\u201cI have to look after them, Brad,\u201d Ruby told him. \u201cI promised my father. But in a few years, the girls will be finished with school, and it will be only mom.\u201d\u201cYour crazy mother and your sisters are moving in with us?\u201d Brad asked. \u201cFor the rest of our lives? Is that what you\u2019re telling me?\u201d After that, Brad was very quiet.He agreed to meet the next day and make the arrangements for the wedding, but he didn\u2019t kiss Ruby goodbye the way he usually did. Ruby never saw him again.She learned that he\u2019d volunteered for the new war in Asia that very afternoon. He\u2019d left her all alone and pregnant. \u201cWhat am I going to do?\u201d she asked herself.If she kept the baby, what kind of life could she give it? She had to work all the time to raise her sisters and look after her mother. She couldn\u2019t leave the baby with mom while she worked; it just wasn\u2019t safe.Ruby pressed her hands to her tummy and wept. She\u2019d have to give up her child. She\u2019d give it up for adoption and know that he or she would be loved and cherished.The moment when she gave up her newborn daughter was one of the hardest in Ruby\u2019s life, but she knew she was doing it for the best reasons. \u201cBe happy, my sweet girl,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/cdn.amomama.com\/d33862796398f4a94d4c1af876e238c8.jpg\")
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashThat was more years ago than Ruby cared to remember, and the last time she\u2019d felt young. After Brad, Ruby never looked at another man. She knew that whatever happened, they would never accept her burdens, and she couldn\u2019t ask them to.One by one, her sisters finished school and left home. They married and moved away, and Ruby was left to care for mom, as always. Ruby was seventy-three when her mom passed awayThat day Ruby wept, not just for her mother, but for the bitter waste of an entire life. She had nothing. No family, and since her retirement, few friends.\u201cI\u2019ll just wait to die,\u201d Ruby told herself. \u201cIt can\u2019t be long now.\u201d But it was. Ruby was a sturdy woman in the best of health, and pretty soon, she turned eighty, then ninety\u2026The years passed unmarked by any celebration. No one cared. Ruby sat in her little house and grew older and older. When she turned ninety-nine, a social worker showed up.She wanted to see if Ruby was capable of living on her own. She looked around and was quite happy with her living conditions. She left without wishing Ruby a happy birthday.\u201cOne hundred,\u201d Ruby said to herself. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a century of this world\u2019s history and lived none of it.\u201d She was sitting in her kitchen and thinking about her life when the doorbell rang.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/ODCUzkSQRHTUPWLO_ZQaaQNcHqV0Sv9mVeBpWQbMAqY\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vZDMzODYyNzk2Mzk4ZjRhOTRkNGMxYWY4NzZlMjM4YzguanBnP3dpZHRoPTMyNjQmaGVpZ2h0PTQxOTcmd2lkdGg9MzI2NCZoZWlnaHQ9NDE5Nw.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashThat was more years ago than Ruby cared to remember, and the last time she\u2019d felt young. After Brad, Ruby never looked at another man. She knew that whatever happened, they would never accept her burdens, and she couldn\u2019t ask them to.One by one, her sisters finished school and left home. They married and moved away, and Ruby was left to care for mom, as always. Ruby was seventy-three when her mom passed awayThat day Ruby wept, not just for her mother, but for the bitter waste of an entire life. She had nothing. No family, and since her retirement, few friends.\u201cI\u2019ll just wait to die,\u201d Ruby told herself. \u201cIt can\u2019t be long now.\u201d But it was. Ruby was a sturdy woman in the best of health, and pretty soon, she turned eighty, then ninety\u2026The years passed unmarked by any celebration. No one cared. Ruby sat in her little house and grew older and older. When she turned ninety-nine, a social worker showed up.She wanted to see if Ruby was capable of living on her own. She looked around and was quite happy with her living conditions. She left without wishing Ruby a happy birthday.\u201cOne hundred,\u201d Ruby said to herself. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a century of this world\u2019s history and lived none of it.\u201d She was sitting in her kitchen and thinking about her life when the doorbell rang.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/cdn.amomama.com\/8845b81f1f7f0cce2b70e6980ea7a7cf.jpg\")
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsShe got up and opened the door. There was a young man there, and he was holding a huge cake with a big 100 on top of it. \u201cHi Gran!\u201d he cried cheerfully. \u201cHappy birthday!\u201dRuby\u2019s chin dropped. \u201cYoung man, you have the wrong house\u2026\u201d\u201cNo, I don\u2019t,\u201d he said gently. \u201cYou are my great-grandmother Ruby. My grandmother always wanted to know who her birth mother was, so when she turned 81, I had the records unsealed.\u201cNo one imagined you were still alive! Gran\u2019s outside, in the car, waiting to meet you \u2014 if you agree.\u201d\u201cMy daughter?\u201d Ruby asked. \u201cShe\u2019s\u2026Does she want to meet me? I\u2026I gave her up\u2026I wanted her to be happy\u2026\u201d\u201cShe knows that gran,\u201d the young man said. \u201cWe also know you\u2019ve been alone for a long time, but now you have a family: a daughter, five grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren!\u201dRuby started sobbing, and the young man put his arms around her. \u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re here now, and you\u2019re going to have quite a party!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/knZmLLkEWzHGXmEDq0cvmox-45HnPSH6iuqbOoEJNWw\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vODg0NWI4MWYxZjdmMGNjZTJiNzBlNjk4MGVhN2E3Y2YuanBnP3dpZHRoPTQ4MjMmaGVpZ2h0PTMyMTUmd2lkdGg9NDgyMyZoZWlnaHQ9MzIxNQ.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: PexelsShe got up and opened the door. There was a young man there, and he was holding a huge cake with a big 100 on top of it. \u201cHi Gran!\u201d he cried cheerfully. \u201cHappy birthday!\u201dRuby\u2019s chin dropped. \u201cYoung man, you have the wrong house\u2026\u201d\u201cNo, I don\u2019t,\u201d he said gently. \u201cYou are my great-grandmother Ruby. My grandmother always wanted to know who her birth mother was, so when she turned 81, I had the records unsealed.\u201cNo one imagined you were still alive! Gran\u2019s outside, in the car, waiting to meet you \u2014 if you agree.\u201d\u201cMy daughter?\u201d Ruby asked. \u201cShe\u2019s\u2026Does she want to meet me? I\u2026I gave her up\u2026I wanted her to be happy\u2026\u201d\u201cShe knows that gran,\u201d the young man said. \u201cWe also know you\u2019ve been alone for a long time, but now you have a family: a daughter, five grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren!\u201dRuby started sobbing, and the young man put his arms around her. \u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re here now, and you\u2019re going to have quite a party!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"For](\"https:\/\/cdn.amomama.com\/2a537ce89365193810b1fe763c1f1fab.jpg\")
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashRuby met her daughter, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, and it was the best day of her life. They lit the candles on the cake and sang \u2018Happy Birthday.\u2019 It was the most beautiful sound Ruby had ever heard.\u201cMy life wasn\u2019t a waste after all,\u201d she whispered to her daughter. \u201cI had you!\u201dWhat can we learn from this story?<\/strong>Duty can be a terrible burden, but life always brings a reward.<\/strong> Ruby gave up everything, including her child, to keep her word to her father and look after her mother.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong> Ruby was alone until her 100th birthday, and she spent the rest of her life surrounded by family and love.Share this story with your friends. It might brighten their day and inspire them.<\/strong>If you enjoyed this story, you might like this one about an elderly woman who is shocked when a woman calls her and tells her she is the child she thought had died at birth forty-six years before.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"For](\"https:\/\/imgproxy.amomama.com\/RZzS8MJdlVzIgdfm04IDnQQi5CZNbdEpWhw7rMmkIQ0\/rs:fill:375:0:1\/g:no\/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uYW1vbWFtYS5jb20vMmE1MzdjZTg5MzY1MTkzODEwYjFmZTc2M2MxZjFmYWIuanBnP3dpZHRoPTUxODQmaGVpZ2h0PTM0NTYmd2lkdGg9NTE4NCZoZWlnaHQ9MzQ1Ng.jpg)
<\/picture>For illustration purposes only | Source: UnsplashRuby met her daughter, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, and it was the best day of her life. They lit the candles on the cake and sang \u2018Happy Birthday.\u2019 It was the most beautiful sound Ruby had ever heard.\u201cMy life wasn\u2019t a waste after all,\u201d she whispered to her daughter. \u201cI had you!\u201dWhat can we learn from this story?<\/strong>Duty can be a terrible burden, but life always brings a reward.<\/strong> Ruby gave up everything, including her child, to keep her word to her father and look after her mother.When you least expect it, life sends you a blessing.<\/strong> Ruby was alone until her 100th birthday, and she spent the rest of her life surrounded by family and love.Share this story with your friends. It might brighten their day and inspire them.<\/strong>If you enjoyed this story, you might like this one about an elderly woman who is shocked when a woman calls her and tells her she is the child she thought had died at birth forty-six years before.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"