Aluel and Her Loving Father: Orphaned and Raised Alone
Long ago among the Dinka, there lived a woman named Ayak who married a man called Chol. She gave birth to a daughter but died the very same day. Chol, broken with grief, refused to give the child to others. “I will raise her myself,” he said. He named her Aluel and cared for her alone. He lived on milk
