Lobbyist Roger Bone was presented with The Order of the Long Leaf Pine at a breakfast Wednesday.
The award is the highest honor the governor can bestow on a North Carolina citizen.
Bone, a former legislator who is consistently ranks as one of the state's top lobbyists, was recently diagnosed with cancer.
U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge of Lillington, who roomed with Bone at the Brownstone Hotel when they were legislators, reminisced in a letter about the old days.
"Those were great times and I was lucky to have you as a roommate and as a friend," Etheridge wrote.
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