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Dr. Maya Angelou on Loving and Letting Go | Belief | Oprah Winfrey Network
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Maya Angelou — 2015
When Dr. Maya Angelo was told her mother, Vivian Baxter, had three weeks to live, she invited her to spend her final days with her in North Carolina. Vivian was suffering from terminal lung cancer, but she lived on for another year and a half-far beyond what the doctors had expected.
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When Dr. Maya Angelo was told her mother, Vivian Baxter, had three weeks to live, she invited her to spend her final days with her in North Carolina. Vivian was suffering from terminal lung cancer, but she lived on for another year and a half-far beyond what the doctors had expected.
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