Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Dale Anne Fitzgerald’s new book will inspire young ones to use their imagination paired with their faith to take them to places they can only discover through God’s grace. The clearing in the woods was not just a place of solace, secrets, and smiles it truly became Vanessa’s Garden.” Vanessa knew that she changed that day and in the days to come through family, friends, picnics, school dances, destiny, and the lessons of faith. She knew her parents and brother would discover the secret one day but never realized the heavenly legacy that the clearing held. Vanessa thought of herself as a princess sitting on the throne of her secret kingdom as she embraced the solace. Her imagination would take over as she sat on a huge rock in the middle of the peaceful clearing. The thirteen-and-a-half-year-old brown-haired girl discovered the clearing in the woods on a walk she took one day after school. Nike did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NPR.Dale Anne Fitzgerald, a talented author, has completed her new book, “Vanessa’s Garden”: a faith-based children’s tale.įitzgerald shares, “Vanessa and her family lived in the small rural town that she knew all her life. I do not know how someone else has their hands on shoes I designed in honor of my daughter, Gigi and we don't,' Bryant wrote.

'Nike has NOT sent any of these pairs to me and my girls.

Yet Bryant says she's seen photos of people in possession of the distinctive sneaker. In an Instagram post, Bryant said that after she designed the MAMBACITA, a reference to a nickname for daughter Gianna, who also went by Gigi, she decided not to sell it and did not re-sign a contract with Nike.

Vanessa Bryant, widow of the late basketball great Kobe Bryant, says a shoe she designed for Nike to honor her deceased daughter has been made without her consent, and she wants to know why. Vanessa Bryant says Nike is making, without her consent, a shoe she designed in honor of her late daughter, Gianna. Basketball great Kobe Bryant (from left), daughter Gianna, wife Vanessa and daughter Natalia are seen before an NCAA college women's basketball game in 2017 in Los Angeles.

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