The duck under the tree or Santa exists!

In our family there is a tradition - on the New Year's table must be a duck with apples, at least nothing else, but the duck must be a point! This tradition has been established since 1991, and we continue to do so.
In the 94th (I was 10 years old) came a black-monetary strip, my mother could hardly work, there was no money at all, or there was very little, no permanent work was taken, and random earnings, in the form of compiling accounting reports, were not regular and paid very little. I remember how a terrible sleep our diet - soup only from a bouillon cubicle and green onions grown on the window, with a piece of homemade bread - has been more than 20 years, and I still can't eat bread "by that" recipe. But this is the prehistory to the story itself!
On the evening of Friday, December 30, 1994, in my mom’s pocket of only 20 rubles, it is clear that this year there will be no duck, but there will be pure and silk. She returns home, going to the market to buy something on the holiday table, well, and mandarines). Almost all merchants are closed, and a single grandmother stands and sells a single duck, not a duck, namely a duck, weighing up to a kilogram! The price is 20 rubles. As they say, we do not trade! ? Miracles do not end here - going with this miracle cat through the market, in the snow mom finds a rubber paper!!! There were tears of happiness, and a tree, and a mandarine, and a duck with apples, and even a small candy gift!
During these years there were different New Year's ducks - and "in oranges", and "with nuts", and "with garlic", and "in the test", and weighing 6 kg, etc. and etc. But we always remember that duck!