To start off, WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu explained: In a fourth post uploaded a few hours after her first three, Vanessa shared a touching video in honor of her daughter, where her friends, former coaches, and NBA players talked about what “playing Gigi’s way” means to them.

Related: Vanessa Settles With LA County For Nearly $30 Million Over Kobe Crash Photos Our hearts still break for all of the surviving family members and loved ones. We can’t believe it’s already been over three years since Gigi and Kobe, as well as the eight others on board, tragically lost their lives in that fateful helicopter crash. “Te Amo Mambacita Happy birthday, baby girl.” (c) Vanessa Bryant/Instagram She then rounded out the series of uploads with a third, this time of the girls and herself, tenderly writing: “Happy birthday, sweet Gigi! We love you to the moon and back infinity +1. Vanessa followed up her first post with another, this time of Gigi with her sisters Natalia, 20, and Bianka, 6, which she captioned: Henson, La La Anthony, Storm Reid, and many, many more. Also there to wish the late teen a happy birthday was Ciara, Khloé Kardashian, Taraji P.

If this is civilization, bring on the wolves.Soon after, support and lots of birthday wishes flooded the comments, with the official Lakers IG account writing, “Happy Birthday, Gigi,” followed by purple and yellow hearts. Wondrous sights Zimmerman rolls out for us…are all the more piquant whenīronwyn’s admires begin turning up, cut to ribbons, at almost every whistle This narrative-a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable-is his confession. The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. Zimmerman’s tale is narrated by the Delegate’s son, a Harvard anatomy student. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl’s illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered.

Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Wharton–era Manhattan like a bomb. A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society.

Savage Girl by Jean Zimmerman