Diamond DeShields dares to dream
Posted Jan 24, 2014
Diamond DeShields has enough dreams to fill a book, so she does. Not long after the morning sunlight creeps into her bedroom, she snatches her “dream book” and writes. Dreams, nightmares, fragments of both — they all get chronicled. Some don’t need their own chapter. Helping others makes her happy, gives her a degree of satisfaction that basketball will never reach.
(Daily Tar Heel)
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