Hoop dreams: How Choctaw's Ana Llanusa found her motivation

MIDWEST CITY — The letters are charred along each edge and stained by deep, dark spots the color of soot.

It could have been worse.

Ana Llanusa assumed the handwritten notes were gone — lost in the fire that burned her house to a crisp the night of Dec. 30.

But when she squeezed her way into the brown two-story house now missing a roof and most of the second floor weeks later, there sat the letters in a nice pile on a burned entry-way table.