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A Southern California high school is buzzing with the news that an 18-year-old
student is engaged to Kobe Bryant, the 21-year-old Los Angeles Lakers star.
Rumors went around the school Friday after Bryant confirmed he was engaged
to marry Vanessa Laine, a student at Marina High School. At the home in
Huntington Beach where the fiancee lives with her grandparents, her grandfather
confirmed the engagement. "When you are young, you are very idealistic,"
the elder Laine said. "She seems happy." Talk also centered on the seven-carat
ring Bryant reportedly gave his fiancee. Seven carats, according to a local
jewelry store manager, is the size of a nickel, maybe even a quarter, and
probably cost about $100,000. The couple met when Bryant stopped by a music
video shoot where Laine was working as a background model, said Marina
High drama teacher Robert
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