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Mom & Me & Mom is your seventh autobiography. How many more will you write? I'll be celebrating my 85th birthday [on April 4]. I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, "Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time." Your mother sent you away when you were 3 and—except for a brief period with her when you were 7 and her boyfriend raped you—you didn't see her again until you were 13. Yet this book is full of love for her. How did that happen? I didn't know her. I didn't trust her. But I began to like her because she was kind. I said, "I'd like to call you Lady." She told everybody, "Call me Lady from now on." Amazing. And she was kind to people, all sorts of people—white ones and black ones and Spanish-speaking ones. If they needed something, my mother was the one.