THE RISE OF THE BACKPACK. When I transferred from Bearden Jr. High in Knoxville, to Maryville Jr. High in Maryville, I got ahead of the curve — lots of people carried backpacks at Bearden (generally Army surplus knapsacks), but nobody did in Maryville and people thought it was weird. They got used to it after a while.
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