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I once had a story idea... perhaps one of you well-read types would be able to tell me if it has been done or if it is actually a new idea.

The story is the life of a one dollar bill... or rather all the people it passes to in it's lifetime. bank teller passes it to a grandpa who give it to his grandchild who draws a happy face on it and his initials, and saves it up until he has enough money to buy a bike. The store owner has it and gives it out in change to someone else who drops it. The bum who finds it and uses it to buy wine. That store owner is robbed and it passes to a crook who uses it to buy drugs. A woman has it who is trying to come up with enough money for rent. The landlord passes it to someone else, and so on and so on...

I don't have any of it worked up, I just made up all those scenarios off the top of my head, but the idea is that it passes from hand to hand, some people are ordinary, some extraordinary, some buy simple things, some unusual, years pass and it goes all over the place, and ends up back in the hands of the original little boy a long time later, tattered and worn, but he recognizes the smiley face and his initials on it and wonders where it has been.

That sounds fairly original... we have a picture book called "Paddle to the Sea", about a little wooden indian in a canoe who is carved by a boy in Canada, set afloat in the Great Lakes, and travels down to the sea... and the boy finds him, years later, on a beach in France.

I once had a story idea... perhaps one of you well-read types would be able to tell me if it has been done or if it is actually a new idea.

I don't know about a dollar bill (but you can go to that "Where's George" website that lets you register where a dollar has gone...

But, I remember a book my fifth grade teacher read to our class. I think it was called "Hitty." It was about a doll ("Hitty") that was made I think in Colonial America. It follwed the dolls travels over about 200 years. That's about all I remember, except for the fact that it had us mesmerized.

But then, that was they days of black and white television and we were pretty easily amused...

That's a pretty cool story idea! I've never read anything like it... but it sorta feels like a Twilight Zone episode.

By the way, I just finished watching The Faculty on the SciFi channel... Elijah Woods got to kill the queen alien and be a hero!