A small empty wooden dinghy floats in front of an immense dark swell.

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Mom & Me & Mom

Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

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Describing the speaker's mother would mean capturing a hurricane at full strength. The comparison casts the mother as an overwhelming natural force, immense, unstoppable, and awe-inspiring, so that ordinary description feels inadequate to the scale of that presence.

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