who enters Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center, is alone in the cramped entrance vestibule. It is the centers first day open since winter break. And it is the first day open since Crystal Hardy-Flowers, its founder and director, died of covid-19 on New Years Eve. She was 55.
Some of the kids have attended Little Flowers since they were babies. They knew Crystal Hardy-Flowers as the principal who danced with them on Fridays and gave them candy from a stash under her desk, even when they were sent to her office for misbehaving.
