Gray Samsonite carry-on with red passport holder
Description
I’m sure I left my gray Samsonite carry-on somewhere around downtown Winston-Salem. I last saw it yesterday around 3pm near the Benton Convention Center on Fourth Street. It’s a medium-sized hard-shell suitcase, gray with a small dent on the bottom left and airplane-shaped zipper pulls. In the front pocket there’s a red passport holder I used for family trips, plus a faded sticker from a road trip to the Outer Banks, and a TSA lock with the code 4392 that I use all the time. It means a lot to me—there were mementos from our last family vacation inside—and I really need it back.
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