A Simple, Everyday Object: a Dollar bill
Papery. Green. Crackling. Metallic smelling. Tasting like nothing. Singular in number. United States currency. The portrait of the father of our country. The symbol of beginning. One. One. Repeated as a number across its face. The seal of our nation. All of these words could describe the appearance of almost any dollar bill. Unique to the United States, yet all the same. All dollar bills feel like paper against your skin when you are fiddling around in one's pocket, looking for your keys or some other object of personal significance. All dollar bills have the same imprint as legal tender. And yet like all unexpected, found money, all dollar bills also give rise to a pleasurable sensation in the finger's heart, no matter how small the denomination. Unlike the keys in your pocket that open the door to your unique home or room, however, a dollar is impersonal. A dollar bill is not like finding a now-useless note jotted down 'buy garbage bags.' Credit card receipts, notes about shopping trips that are now complete
Some dollar bills are worn, almost as if they were loved, from being thrown in the washing machine with smelly favorite pairs of jeans, or even occasionally doodled upon-happy birthday, or congratulations. Sometimes you see these notes on money, remnants from other people's lives that have now become part of cool currency transactions. But this dollar bill is so new it could never have been given as a token of love, or even washed with a loved pair of pants. , unused coupons, fliers taken from eager people on the street because you were too polite to say 'no'-all of these things from your pocket remind you about different things about your day. You remember 'hey, I charged my gas,' 'I did remember to buy the garbage bags,' 'I can get a dollar off my order next time I go to Wendy's' and 'I saw that guy dressed as a sandwich and he gave me that flyer-what a weirdo.' All of these are unique events. But where did you get that dollar? Was it from today, or the last time you wore your jacket? A dollar looks the same, no m
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Approximate Word count = 693
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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