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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