THERE WAS A time that the arrival of a new school year meant a new pair of Converse All-Stars, squeaky-soled shoes that offered so much promise. WE never ran as fast or jumped as high as we imagined we would during those first moments when our All-Stars were new, in those first tentative steps around the shoe department at the 3 Beall Brothers store.

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