The Life Story of a Nastassia!

My partial life story will really start a little more than a year before I was born. So the year is 1989, and my (white) mother, Katie Sessions, has just graduated high school at the age of seventeen. She joins the army and has a smashing good time, until she gets married when she’s eighteen. (Not to say that marriage is a downfall for good times.) His name is Craig Fuller (he is black), and in 1991 I am welcomed to the world as Nastassia Isabella Fuller.
(F.Y.I. - I am mulatto.) One year, two months, and nine days later, (this was probably the greatest year, two months, and nine days of my life.) my sister Lizzy (Elizabeth Ashley Fuller) is born. (Yay, right?) Anyway, we were born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, because my mom was still in the army. Pretty soon after that my mom moves us to Germany to live, which is where we are living when my mother wises up and kicks Craig out of our lives. (Really, Lizzy doesn’t ever hear from him again, but I get birthday cards till I turn seven, good riddance to bad rubbish.) They get divorced and he disappears, I really have no idea where he is to this day, neither do his parents.
We have some peace and quiet, until my mother meets a fellow serviceman, a cook, Jeffry Harris (he is black as well). JoAnn Denise Harris is born in Germany in 1995, my baby sister. When we move back to the states in 1996 my mother gets remarried. Lizzy and I were flower girls, we were so cute. Jeff ended up adopting us, so guess what, he’s my dad, not stepdad. Which is a cool and dandy since I’ve known him since I was a little girl living in Germany, anyway.
So this is my partial life story, I felt it needed to be told so people don’t ask me what my nationality is. If you missed it earlier, I AM MULATTO. (Not: Mexican, Korean, Asian, Native American, Latin American, Hmong, Hawaiian, Dominican, etc.) Stay tuned for next week when I unravel the partial life story of my elementary school days.