Waris Dirie Book Summary

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The book I read for this project was the autobiography of Waris Dirie, a Somalian that passed through rough parts all her life. When she was a little girl, she lived in the hot desert of Somalia with her mom, her dad and her numerous brothers and sisters, which half died of chilhood deseases. They were nomads, which means that they had not a home and they were all living in tents. That was a hard life in this arid desert : sometimes they did not have water because they could not find some and they only nutrients they had were from the two meals per day of goat milk they were used to

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