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A grin formed on my face as i walked out of my room and closed the door. She traveled alone across the dangerous somali desert to mogadishuthe first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to london, where she worked as a house servant. She wrote her autobiography, desert flower, about her. A lot of the biography and the autobiography books are there in the market and a lot of these books are having a very good name due to a lot of the reasons. Waris diriedesert flower read and download epub, pdf, fb2. Desert flower is a 2009 german biographical film directed by sherry hormann.
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