So it happened that, for five months, Joan had an infant son she had named Christopher Crawford, and then he was gone. “She adored you,” wrote Betty Barker, Joan’s secretary, years later, “and she was broken-hearted when she had to return you to your natural mother. I remember that she wanted to fight the case, but her lawyers convinced her that she couldn’t win. When she lost you, all of us were afraid to mention your name to her for years, as it was a tender subject with her. She would have loved to have known what happened to you.
