Big-hearted: John Ajak, shown here outside his creation of the Cinderella-themed pumpkin village in the arboretum he works at, sends any money he makes from his bestselling memoir to his homeland, Sudan, to help equip schools.
He is living proof that everything is possible, no matter where you come from.
JOHN Ajak, a Lost Boy of Sudan now 32, has something in common with all gardeners, despite the vast differences between his past and the majority of Americans. Ajak calls his work tending display gardens at the Dallas Arboretum his therapy. When I began to talk to him about how gardening was my therapy, too, I quickly found myself blubbering.
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