Dear Kobe,
From the moment I saw you with the sunglasses on your forehead joking about taking your talent to the NBA, I could tell you were going to be something special. A little later you took Brandy to your high school prom. You were a star before anyone knew you.
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It wasn't really arrogance, but it was more than confidence. It was faith. Faith in yourself. Faith in your will being deeper and stronger than everyone else. Faith that you would get where you wanted to be simply because you wanted to be there. Outside distractions, outside influences would not be an impediment. You never hid your intelligence or thirst for knowledge but you did it with a bravado and edge that we had never seen before. While Allen Iverson was always loved for keeping it real because of the hard life he had come from, you were able to keep it real in a different way, but no less...real.
