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第一页 WarisDirie 第二页 She is an African shepherdess. Be raped when she was young Now she is an?international?supermodel and best-selling?author. ?She devotes?herself to saving the African women. After?suffering shes running out. The movie Desert Flower which tells the true story of Waris Dirie touched and shocked the hearts of readers worldwide. Waris Dirie is considered as the first person who protests the horrific practice of female circumcision(割礼), the act of which makes a milestone in the history. 第三页 It is the inspiring true story of Waris Dirie, an extraordinary, proud and brave woman whose bestselling biography Desert Flower touched the hearts of readers worldwide. Born in the Somalian desert in 1965, Waris Dirie rose from a poverty nomadic life(游牧生活) to the fashion catwalks of New York. 第四页 When she was four years old, she was raped by a firend of his father.After then she was forced to accept the most brutal and ignorant female circumcision which took her sisters life . 第五页 As a desert nomad, Waris Dirie was sold to marriage at the age of 13 to a man old enough to be her grandfather as his fourth wife . So she fled the Somalian desert by foot. 第六页 Waris trudged through the desert that seemed endless. She lay down in the cold wind during the darkness and had a break, she pick up the leaves to fill her stomach when the food was run out. She almost raped along the journey . Finally she find her grandma, and spent several years with her grandma. 第七页 Then she worked for one of her cousins in Somalia Embassy in London , where she started a new life. 第八页 A few years later She was forced to leave Embassy and encountered a ballet dancer ,and they become roommates . This grile helped her find a job served as a cleaner in a restaurant. Gradually ,she found it incredible that girls were not “cut” (the rite of circumcision) at a young age there. 第九页 In this restaurant a prestigious photographer who want