"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

Family, Mother, Power, Beauty, Nature

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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

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