Have you heard the word "circumcision"?
For us Asian women, it is common to spend candles in caves, get married and have children. But did you know that in a barren tribe in the remote Somali desert of Africa, whenever they hear this word, girls are all terrified and disturbed?
Circumcision is more like a "torture" than a ritual.
In villages in this part of Africa, poverty not only limits their range of activities, but also prevents them from accessing formal education, and cultural education is extremely backward. It can be said that they have some behavior that can even be described as outrageous.
When Wallis Diary was four years old, while her father was away, one of his friends forcibly defiled little Wallis, who was only 4 years old, without finding her father. Then escaped. Not only was this demon not sentenced to death, but little Wallis's father actually insulted and beat this young girl. Little Wallis did not resist at all, she could only respond to this cold world with silent silence.
This remote and isolated African desert has prejudice and discrimination against women deep in the marrow. Most of them believe that women's genitals are the source of evil, and in any case, "circumcision" must be performed at a prescribed age!
She originally had a sister, and her fate came to an abrupt end within a few days of being circumcised. This time, it's Little Wallis' turn!
One supposed pleasant afternoon, Wallisse's father came to Wallisse's room with a long red-burned needle, threaded, and frowned.
Little Wallis knew in her heart what she was going to face next. And she knew that resistance wouldn't help. The father held a long needle in his hand, his expression was serious, and he sternly reprimanded little Wallis. And the pain came.
Wallisse's circumcision, completed on this sunny afternoon, echoed above the village with her childish and crying voice.
Circumcision involves cutting off a portion of a woman's genitals and sewing them with threads. Until the night of the woman's wedding, the husband himself cuts her thread and becomes his official wife. The terrible thing is that in this "terrifying operation", no disinfection measures are taken, and many girls have not survived this disaster because of the pain. In Somalia, countless girls have died from circumcision.
But Wallis did not stand the tragedy to the end, but escaped the clutches of this desert with amazing perseverance and stubbornness. The counterattack was successful.
It turned out that after the circumcision, she fled the desert, and after several twists and turns in the middle, she came to the big city, and she just entered the city, she had not yet gained a foothold, and faced the torment of hunger, when she did not understand the language and could not read, so she had to live by digging through garbage heaps. After being introduced by a kind person to a restaurant to serve dishes, wash dishes to make a living, she is not afraid of hardship and dirt, people are easy-going and hardworking, gradually, everyone likes this optimistic and cheerful girl.
One morning, a roadside photographer was filming and accidentally saw the tall and well-behaved Wallis. So I went into the restaurant and tried to invite her to take some pictures. After the photo shoot, the photographer handed her a business card and asked her to talk about whether she was interested in modeling. Wallis, who had experienced the calamity of life and death, was flattered, and then she learned that this photographer who had a grace for her was the royal photographer of Princess Diana!
There is an old saying in China: if you don't have a great deal, good fortune depends on each other.
And Wallis Diary is the goddess who strangled fate and turned things around. Today, years later, the confident and wise Wallis on the runway is undoubtedly the brightest "star"!
There is no shortage of miracles in this world. In the boundless desert, the most ordinary flowers can also bloom. If the desert represents suffering, then Wallis Deary is the one who countered suffering - the flower of the desert!
