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Good morning! Mostly sunny today with highs in the 70s and 80s. And now an update on a story we brought you earlier this year: Diamond Syas found herself homeless and largely alone during last school year. It would have been easy to become another Minnesota dropout statistic. But she didn't quit. The sweet payoff for that struggle came last Thursday when Diamond, a senior at Bloomington Kennedy High School, took the stage at Mariucci Arena, accepted her diploma and put her college plans back on track. | Forecast

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