desert flower.?

Question

im looking for the article from readers digest. and i cant find it. i need it for a class any help?

Answer 1

Hey Lindsey,

This site claims that you can read the the desert flower article on a web site that they give, but the link seems dead. Try it.

1. Desert flower: The Waris Dirie Story •••
The Waris Dirie Story (c) Reader's Digest My family was a tribe of herdsmen in the Somalian desert. And as a child, the freedom I had to experience...
...My family was a tribe of herdsmen in the Somalian desert. And as a child, the freedom I had to experience nature’s sights, sounds and smells was pure...
...and wearing only a scarf draped around me, I ran off into the black desert night. I didn’t know which direction led to Mogadishu; I just ran. Slowly at...
...word for "small mouth." But she named me Waris, the word we used for the desert flower. In my country sometimes it doesn't rain for months. Few living...
72% Thu, 27 May 1999 00:45:27 GMT http://www.fgmnetwork.org/articles/Waris.htm

Answer 2

Hey Lindsey,

I just visited http://www.rd.com/dispatchSearch.do and nothing there. Is Desert flower the actual title of the article?