Black North Face backpack with red zipper pulls
Description
Hi, I’m Priya Patel. I lost my black North Face backpack yesterday around 3pm outside the USM campus bookstore on Hardy Street in Hattiesburg. It’s a roughly 20-liter pack, a bit worn at the bottom, with bright red zipper pulls on the main compartment and a small orange dragon sticker on the front pocket. Inside I had my 13-inch laptop, a spiral notebook with doodles, and the charger in a blue zip bag. The inside lining is cobalt blue, and there’s a faded blue keychain with my initials PP attached to the zipper. It holds a lot of class notes and sketches from last semester, so it means a lot to me. If anyone found it, I’d really appreciate getting it back.
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