Nov 18, 2011 the autobiography of waris dirie, a somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at, fled from africa a while later to become finally an american supermodel and is now at the age of 38. Moving with relatives to london, she worked for a while at a mcdonalds and was discovered by chance by fashion photographer terence donovan. Read desert flower by waris dirie,cathleen miller for free with a 30 day free trial. Dirie ran away from home at age to escape from an arranged marriage to a 60yearold man. A regular book discussion group talked about desert flower, by waris dirie. Desert flower power poem by by alice knisley matthias personification is when a writer makes a plant, animal or object seem like a human. The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad is an autobiographical book written by waris dirie and cathleen miller, published in 1998 about the life of somali model, waris dirie.
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