Finding Christa

Christa Billops: “My earliest memory is that of your leaving me outside the orphanage. I couldn’t understand why. I felt so lonely. Why did you leave me?” Camille Billops: “I wanted to give you something else. I felt you needed both a mother and a father. Christa, I’m very sorry if you suffered because of me, but I don’t feel sorry for what I did”. As Camille was expecting Christa, she realized Stanford would never come back to marry her. She did not want to raise a fatherless child, she dreamed of a harmonious family life, like “those you can see in films”. When Christa was four, her mother abandoned her. In 1980, twenty-two-year old Christa decided to look for her mother and found her in New York.