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Terry Gross

Brittney Griner reflects on 'Coming Home' after nearly 300 days in a Russian prison

Brittney Griner stands in a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki, Russia, on Aug. 2, 2022. (Evgenia Novozhenina /POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ever since her release from a Russian penal colony in December 2022, WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner has had a recurring nightmare in which she's back in Russia, and she has problem with her paperwork.

In her dream, she says, when she goes to the Russian embassy for help, "I'm stuck right back in the cell that I was in, and there's no talk of coming back. So it's just right back into the place where I spent most of the time."

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