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Loorkinyai and Daniel with a sister-wife and her child. They all belong to the Maasai tribe of Northern Tanzania.

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Those are some hardcore earrings...

The babies look so cute! ^ ^

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If I must die, let it be by a dark lord as I hold a piece of chocolate in my right hand...
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Loorkinyai (my host mom, or "yeyo") taught me how to make earrings, and she made me a pair!
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This is a fantastically awesome picture. But Baby number one (Daniel?) Isn't smiling!! But he is adorable none the less. When babies have hair like that I just want to rub their heads and make goo-coo-ing noises.

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- I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Plus- What is a sister-wife? Does it mean what I think it means?

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- I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Yeah, that's Daniel, and he's only three months old, so he's not much of a smiler yet. His seven-year-old sister Stella could sometimes get him to smile, though!
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A sister-wife is a polyandrynous term. It means that these two women share one husband. (He actually had like four or five wives. He looked like Watto from Star Wars Episode 1. Oh, and he was 80. Like for serious 80. I asked my 14-year-old host sister the names and ages of all her family members. Loorkinyai, my host mom, is 35.)
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The little girl in the picture is friggin adorable and smiley.

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- I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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wow..wow..80? That's special and almost impressive. How many kids does he have?

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- I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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My host mom had at least five, maybe six, and there were usually four or five kids belonging to other sister-wives running around... I rather suspect that he may not have been the biological father of all of the kids, particularly since most of them seemed to be under age seven.

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