"Slut, you can only be honest if you cut off what is between your legs." A 4-year-old girl returned home covered in dirt and blood after being sexually assaulted. Originally thought that her father would comfort her, who would have thought that her father would find someone to savagely cut off her female organs when she was 5 years old.
When people think of Somalia, they may think of rampant piracy and impoverished people. In this land that belongs to Africa, many brutal ancient customs are still preserved.
"Circumcision" is one of them, and the poor girl in the story was born in Somalia. The land that gave birth to her brought her a lifetime of shadow and pain, and she spent half of her life escaping her hometown, and then spent the rest of her life trying to change. Her name is Wallis. Diri.
Wallis has 12 children in her family, and her family is poor, all of whom rely on shepherding sheep to make ends meet.
When she was 4 years old, she went to herd sheep with a shepherd she had hired. Unexpectedly, this became the root of her life's pain.
The two drove the flock far away, and the 4-year-old girl wielded a shepherd whip and hummed nursery rhymes. Jumping and walking among the sheep, she didn't know that the demon's eyes had firmly hooked her.
At the back of the flock, the shepherd turned his head, and by this time he could no longer see the village behind him.
He stepped forward quickly and hugged poor Wallis.
No matter how much Wallis cried, it was useless, and the shepherd strangled her body and brutally raped her.
Afterwards, Wallis was covered in dirt and bleeding from her lower body. She cried and ran home.
I thought that my parents would let the shepherd be punished, but I didn't expect to be scolded by my parents.
The parents said that what happened to Wallis had brought shame on their family and that they were ashamed of having such a daughter. Wallis is a slut through and through, all raped because she wasn't circumcised.
Wallis did not understand what her parents said about "shame", she did not understand why she should bear all this because she was obviously the one who was bullied.
Before Wallis could recover from this terrible experience, the next year, her father invited a terrible old woman to prepare a circumcision ceremony for the young Wallis.
Wallis was terrified that her two sisters died of germs after being circumcised.
When her sister died, she felt a pang of suffocation in her little heart, because she would also have to undergo circumcision in the future, which was a bond on women that grew from the land of Africa, and this bond would stay with them for the rest of their lives.
The mother hugged Wallis desperately and spread her legs apart. It was surrounded by onlookers. Everyone was laughing, congratulating Wallis on finally being "complete".
Only Wallis kept crying, but no matter how much she struggled, it didn't help.
The old woman had taken out a blade from the cloth bag, which was covered with dried blood, perhaps the blood of Wallisse's two dead sisters.
Wallis struggled with a breakdown, and the old woman quickly approached her organ with a blade, and then completed this unethical castration.
Fortunately, Wallis was not infected. Unfortunately, at the age of thirteen, suffering came again.
This year, my father wanted to give her to a sixty-year-old man for five camels.
Wallis begged her father that she would do a lot of work at home and not marry herself, but her father had accepted the dowry.
Wallis is about to be sent to another remote village to become the old man's fourth wife. Wallis finally couldn't stand it anymore, she wanted to escape, flee far away, and never come back.
So, Wallis set off on a quiet night, and she didn't even have a pair of shoes to take away. So he crossed the desert barefoot to Mogadishu in search of the only grandmother who had ever warmed him.
On the way, countless stones cut her feet, and countless beasts roared at her. But the girl did not flinch in the slightest, and after a few days and nights, she finally arrived at her grandmother's house.
Her uncle was a diplomat at the Somali embassy in London, and it happened that his family needed a maid. Grandma introduces Wallis, who soon travels to another country.
At her aunt's house in London, Wallis spent six years full of sunshine.
Later, the Somali civil war broke out and the embassy in London was withdrawn. When the aunt's family was about to leave the UK, Wallis sneaked away, and even if she became a black household, she did not want to return to her original home.
At one point, she lived on the streets and was homeless.
In the process of working illegally, he met the girl Marilyn.
The girl took her in and introduced her to a restaurant as a waitress, which became a huge turning point in her life.
One day, she was cleaning a table in a restaurant when a man stared at her for a long time and handed her a business card.
It turned out that the man was Donald, a famous British fashion photographer. He hoped that Wallis would consider coming to his studio to become a model.
After much deliberation, Wallis joined Donald's studio.
Since then, Waris Kuroto who lived in pain disappeared, and the world's top supermodel Wallis was born!
Just when everyone thought that Wallis would create another peak in her modeling career, Wallis quit the modeling industry.
Instead, he served as a special envoy to the United Nations, traveling around the world to preach the inhumanity of circumcision in Africa, hoping to save many girls who were struggling with pain like he had in the past.
Although Somalia has brought her a lot of pain, Wallis often misses her hometown, the blue sky and the bright sunshine of her hometown.
She understood that only the desert of her homeland could grow the "black pearl" that now has a dazzling light.
What he needs to do now is to get rid of bad habits and save more girls from fire and water. Just like my grandmother said that year: Only by not forgetting the direction you came from can you go farther away.
