TAMPA, Fla. — There have been DNA checks and detectives, a lifetime of questions however few solutions. At 88 years previous, Tampa’s Miss Yvonne is still attempting to resolve her life’s greatest mystery.
“When I was about three months old, I was left on a doorstep in a cardboard box in Petersburg, Virginia,” she mentioned.
It was a wet night time. The man who discovered Yvonne on his doorstep known as the police, who took this mystery child to a hospital. If you are questioning, and Yvonne definitely wonders, the drop-off seems to be random.
Many years later, she’d go to the title who discovered her. His title was Andrews. He grew emotional seeing her once more, however his story remained the identical: He had no connection to Yvonne or her start dad and mom.
She grew to become a little bit of an area celeb, the mystery child within the cardboard field. Yvonne (her final title withheld for privateness) was ultimately adopted by a loving household with 4 sons. They needed a woman, they usually received a feisty one.
“Oh, I was a tomboy,” she mentioned via fun. “I’d walk around with a pretend paper cigarette in my mouth.”
Since then, there have been few leads, however few tears, too.
“I’ve had a wonderful life,” she says. “But I still wonder. And the older I get, the more I dwell on it. In my heart, I always thought [my birth mom] was an unwed mother. Back in those days, a young girl having a baby at 14 or 15 was very scandalous.”
In Yvonne’s pretty house, above a piano she performs, there hangs a framed assortment of child garments: a knit cap, a sweater, tiny booties. These are what she was sporting in that cardboard field on that wet night time.
“My husband framed that for me,” she mentioned.
She and her husband Dale had a giant loving household, together with twins. Maybe Yvonne was a twin? She’s questioned that, too.
Yvonne would love solutions. But on the identical time, she feels grateful on the manner life turned out.
“I have no regrets,” she mentioned. “That was God’s will that I was left on that doorstep. I’ve been blessed.”