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Miami Heat rookie Da’Sean Butler shouldn’t quit his day job just yet, but the Twitter Epic he wrote using 28 tweets of 140 characters each is better than anything Rick Reilly has ever written. Da’Sean tells the beautiful story of a young man named Da’Sean and his purple dinosaur, Barney. West Virginia, his alma mater, has already offered Butler an honorary PhD for his ground breaking work in literacy and not developing cirrhosis before graduation. Da’Sean’s story was penned specifically for all of the children which have access to the internet and follow him on Twitter. It begins like this:

Once upon a time there was a young boy named Da’Sean. Da’Sean was 22 years old and lived in Newark, NJ. While walking home from school one day, a Purple Dinosaur jumped out from behind a Brick Wall and tackled Da’Sean to the ground. But just when he was about to let out a scream for help, Da’Sean realized that the Purple Dinosaur was only licking his face, not trying to bite it off. –Sun Sentinel

You have me on pins and needles, Da’Sean. The story in its entirety after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »