SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV)— Four-year-old Promyse is heading into her second year of preschool, and she's already got the most essential item checked off on her back-to-school list: a brand new backpack that fits her just right.

"She loves school. She loves riding the bus, she loves going to school," her mom, Tamarah Young, said. "It really is an amazing experience even if I have to drop her off."

Promyse's backpack is the perfect size for her small build, and that's part of what makes Mary Nelson's Annual Backpack Giveaway so special.

The woman behind it all, Mary Nelson, founder of the Mary Nelson Youth Center, says this year, the smaller-sized backpacks are the hardest to find -- small enough to fit on pre-K through second graders' shoulders, but big enough to carry everything these st

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