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On September 9, 2009, college freshman Fletcher Cleaves was named a starter for the Lambuth University football team. It should have been the greatest day of his life. Instead, it would be the last day he played football.
Cleaves left practice and went to dinner with a friend on what seemed like an ordinary drive on an ordinary Wednesday. That’s when an oncoming driver, distracted from looking at their phone, drifted head on into Cleaves’ lane. All it took was one glance to go from sitting on a football scholarship to sitting in a wheelchair.