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Article: FRIEND HELPS FLOWERS BLOOM.(SPORTS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 9, 1999
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Byline: VINCENT BONSIGNORE
Time reveals everything, making it our greatest friend and worst enemy. Given enough time, heroes can become villains while the scorned come to be admired.
In the case of John Flowers and Joshua Hay, two unlikely friends introduced by tragedy and linked together by courage and love, time has indeed been a true friend.
Flowers, a former Cal State Northridge basketball recruit who lost his legs in a car accident in 1992 before ever playing a game for the Matadors, receives the Camp Chesed Humanitarian award tonight at 7 p.m. at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills. Flowers also is doing something he hasn't been ...