How often in our youth have we heard: “Learn from your mistakes.” How often in adulthood we ourselves said this to our children. However, without much hope. Everyone knows: it is impossible to learn from other people's mistakes. Experience comes only when you make your own. Alya Dobrynina was left an orphan early. Grandmother Sofya Pavlovna, who replaced her mother, father, and other relatives, lamented that her granddaughter was repeating her mistakes. But Alya, with her ardor, “correctness,” and nobility, lived as her heart told her. That is why she had to endure betrayal, disappointment, and collapse of hopes more than once. But there is no life without mistakes. And Alya, having become quite an adult, understands: the main thing in her life was love, real, all-consuming. This means that she is almost a happy woman. Because it is probably impossible to be completely happy.