when i was a girl in the desert of somalia my family was nomadic moveng around with our animals. we were happy and i loved my mother more than anything. i was about 13 when my father called me at the end of a hot day. come and sit here he said. I've found you a husband! we have arranged that he will give me five camels. That night I ran away I was frightened. for almost three weeks I walked through the desert but finally I got to my auntie's house in Moadishu. Auntie's husbassador and in a few months I flew to Britain to work at his London house.